CERN takes next step towards completing the LHC

Wired : The elevator buttons in front of me, hand-labeled in black marker, speak volumes: “Sky,” says one, the other, “Hell."Sky is the Swiss-French border, pastoral Geneva countryside in the shadow of soaring Alpine mountains. Hell is “The Machine” -- a 16.8-mile underground ring where, in almost precisely a year, superconducting magnets will begin accelerating atomic particles to within a hairsbreadth of the speed of light, and smash them into each other.