The large Hadron Collider almost ready

[burgundia]

to start working after a period of repairs....
Find the link in English.....

Now the race is on with a particle collider in the USA ...

Large Hadron Collider to start again, but costs rise in race to discover 'God Particle'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sciencean...-Particle.html

The £4bn particle accelerator, which broke down last year, was to be turned off in winter to reduce energy demands during peak electricity prices.

But the delays and the news that a smaller less powerful accelerator at Fermilab in Illinois [in Batavia near Chicago] is closing in on the particle has meant it will continue running throughout the year – at an extra cost of £13 million...

Re 'God Particle' which was originally called the *goddamn particle* mostly because it's so hard to prove. The story goes that Lederman's editor nixed it...

"One planet-sized hole in the Standard Model is that it doesn't explain why things have mass. As a fix for this problem, scientists have proposed the Higgs particle, aka the Higgs boson, aka the God particle — the last a term popularized by the book of that title by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman. Lederman says the God particle was so named because (a) it's short for "goddamn particle," presumably owing to the difficulty of establishing its existence, and (b) finding proof of said existence would help us understand the "mind of God." Skeptics would likely add that the term is also appropriate because (c) like its namesake, it may not really be there."
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/...e-god-particle

Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - beneath the French-Swiss border, near Geneva



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