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Article: FERMILAB TO HELP BUILD SWISS LAB
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- The Beacon News - Aurora (IL)
- Article date:
- December 9, 1997
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BATAVIA -- American research and money are going into development of a particle accelerator in Europe which will surpass Fermilab in Batavia as the premier high-energy physics lab, for one basic reason:
You snooze, you lose.
The U.S. Department of Energy signed an agreement Monday to contribute $531 million to development of the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, even though construction of the facility means groundbreaking scientific discoveries will take place off American soil and half a world away from Fermilab.
"This will be the game in town, so to speak," said David Eartly, a Fermilab physicist working on the project.
"If the U.S. scientific community wants to stay very alive, it ...