Go Collider Go!

Champagne all round (again) for the scientists who have been nursing the Large Hadron Collider back to life for the last fourteen months.

During its down time the collider has been tested and dusted and refitted and fed a sandwich and tested some more. And finally cooled down to operating temperatures and had its green Go button pressed.

This evening the particle beams are chasing their tails sedately around the 27km collider track. Later in the weekend scientists hope to see the particle collisions this huge machine was built to cause.

And maybe, just maybe, the force of those collisions will be sufficient to generate that wunderkind of fundamental particles The God Particle.

Up here we're not so bothered about Particles - not when we already have a whole pantheon of the completed article after all.