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Article: God's Broken Machine.(International Edition; SCIENCE)(Large Hadron Collider )
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- Newsweek International
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- March 16, 2009
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Byline: Fred Guterl and William Underhill
As Europe makes repairs to its shiny new particle accelerator, U.S. rivals prepare to steal the prize.
Investors aren't the only ones feeling a pit in their stomachs lately. Physicists at the world's biggest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, are seeing their dreams of Nobel Prizes go down the drain along with the Dow. The collider was sold to the European public as the best chance of discovering a piece of subatomic debris so important to our understanding of the universe that it's been dubbed the "God Particle." Less than a month after scientists flipped the switch on the new machine ...