Circle of life: Europeans fire up supercollider

 
The Oklahoman Editorial
Published: September 16, 2008

R OUND and round it goes, where it stops is on all the cable news shows.

The world's first superconducting supercollider has been fired up on the France - Switzerland border, part of an ambitious and expensive effort to explore the Big Bang theory.

This could have happened much closer to home. A proposed supercollider in north Texas was encircled by fury over its price tag. It was to have a circumference of 5...


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