The world's largest atom smasher was successfully restarting after more than a year of repairs.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was heavily damaged by an electric fault last September and scientist have been trying to fix it. They all went home early on Friday, but were called back when the machine began working.
The scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) were able to get the machine working and get the beams to travel the 17 mile circular tunnel under the Swiss-French border.
The LHC is expected to be running with more energy than the world's current accelerator, the Tevatron at Fermilab in Chicago. Running up to seven times the energy in coming years.
The collision between protons will give insight into dark matter and what gives mass to other particles, theorizing that the Big Bang created the Universe millions of years ago.
If the elusive Higgs boson, the particle or field that they believe gives mass to other particles, is discovered, it would probably warrant a Nobel Prize.
Currently the LHC is in Geneva with more than 8,000 physicists from around the world, including San Diego they have work or are now working on it. As the restart progresses, the organization is taking it slowly to avoid further setbacks as it moves toward new experiments, which is forecast to begin in January.
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