"One short trip for a proton, but one giant leap for mankind!" — Physicist Nigel Lockyer, now director of Fermilab, on the first successful proton beam at the Large Hadron Collider OTD in 2008. . . . . . . . . . #CERN #onthisday #proton #science #physics #particlephysics #first #anniversary #today #sciencehistory #history #cool #wtf #mindblown #tiny