From the NY Times of 21 May 2011:
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Atom-Smasher Retires; Lab Makes Career Switch
When scientists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced last month that they might have discovered a new elementary particle or fundamental force of nature, it was likely the swan song of the lab’s Tevatron accelerator, once the most powerful atom-smasher in the world. ...
With the 25-year-old Tevatron scheduled to shut down in September, Fermilab in Batavia, one of the Chicago area’s premier research institutions with a budget of almost $400 million, will narrow its focus to less expensive experiments as it explores other uncharted areas of physics.
"We've delimited the field in which we're going to build facilities — they're much more realistic," said Pier Oddone, Fermilab's director. "They're smaller scale."
With the accelerator shut down and the workload shrinking, Fermilab is expected to cut about 5 percent of its work force of 1,900 over the next few years.
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More America research goes overseas.
Quantum physics is today what the transistor was in 1950. So in the tradition of political agendas and to better worship gods, stop spending money on particles too tiny to see. Better is to study the Bible. Everything man needs to know is in there. Including the date of every rapture.
05-22-2011, 01:10 PM
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