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Article: A big, fizzling particle collider; A big, fizzling collider (or, hold that boson)
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- International Herald Tribune
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- August 5, 2009
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DENNIS OVERBYE
International Herald Tribune
08-05-2009
A big, fizzling particle collider; A big, fizzling collider (or, hold that boson)
Byline: DENNIS OVERBYE
Type: News
The biggest, most expensive physics machine in the world is riddled with thousands of bad electrical connections.
The biggest, most expensive physics machine in the world is riddled with thousands of bad electrical connections.
Many of the magnets meant to whiz high-energy subatomic particles around a 17-mile, or 27-kilometer, underground racetrack in Switzerland have mysteriously lost their ability to operate at high energies. Some physicists are deserting the European project, at least temporarily, to work at a smaller, ...