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Thu 09 Sep 2008Leo's the head of light entertainment as popping champagne makes biggest bang
DUBLIN REACTION:WHEN IT comes to particle physics, timing is everything. Blink and you'll miss it a billion times over. The start of the great Cern experiment was missed by the assembled gathering at the Science Gallery in Trinity College, Dublin yesterday morning.
The beam of protons had careered at almost the speed of light from the first section of the Large Hadron Collider to the second and the scientists at Cern in Geneva were already whooping and congratulating each other by the time it was apparent in Dublin.
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