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God particle: The Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider fired mankind into a “new era of science” in March last year producing the world’s first highenergy particle collision. After years of setbacks, the £4.4billion machine has been smashing together protons using three times the speed and energy of previous experiments. The collider, which is housed at the European Centre for […]
A Final Smash For America’s Giant Particle Collider
September 14, 2011
by NELL GREENFIELDBOYCE On the grounds of a science laboratory near Chicago, a physicist named Dmitri Denisov walks up wooden steps to the top of something that looks sort of like an abandoned railroad bed. “Wow, look, it’s beautiful,” says Denisov, gazing out at a pond. “I didn’t even know about these flowers.” The tall mound […]
September 14, 2011
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