I am sorry to read the junk comments from the other posters here. This is a real science story and all you can do is make jokes about it and refer to the Mayan long calender.
The beam was accelerated from its initial injection energy of 450 giga-electron-volts (GeV) up to 540 GeV.
This is nothing.
They hope to reach 1.2 tera-electron-volts before the Christmas break.
And this is next to nothing. It is about 3 times the starting energy. They are starting it slowly and going very slow until they are sure it is working to specs. Then they can continue from there, again slowly.
Fermilab outside of Batavia, Illinois has generated a dual beam with 1.96 TeV.
In 1995 they announced the discovery of the top quark. The top quark is a subatomic particle
Theorized by Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa in 1973.
Much of this info comes from Wikipedia. With some from Fermilab and other sources found with Google.
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