10 Reasons Why You Can’t Live Without A Particle Accelerator
From Nautilus, 12 June 2014
Physicists use particle accelerators to answer questions of fundamental physics—how our universe was created, why objects have mass, and so on. Accelerators are huge—Fermilab’s Tevatron, near Chicago, is four miles in circumference, while the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva is more than four times that size—and extremely expensive. In some ways, they’re the epitome of the pure research instrument. But if you think these machines have no use outside of research, you’re in for a surprise. Read more >>
ctanguy, 2014-06-12 00:00:00
