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21 August, 2004
21 August 2004Show yourself: David Adam, science correspondent for The Guardian, reports on the announcement yesterday of a multi-national group of scientists who plan to create a new, gigantic atom smashing machine called the international linear collider, priced at 3 billion pounds. What for? To make the God particle (a.k.a. the Higgs boson particle) reveal itself in an explosion that briefly recreates the conditions of the Big Bang. The God particle, Adam writes, "is a mysterious sub-atomic fragment that permeates the entire universe and explains how everything is the way it is." And if that's not enough, it could also change physics forever...
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