Physicists await new frontiers as atom smasher is refitted
Monday, April 15, 2013 - 11:50
in Physics & Chemistry
As two yellow-helmeted electricians rise slowly on a hoist from the cavern floor to check cabling on a huge red magnet, CERN scientist Marc Goulette makes clear he sees cosmic significance in their task."When this refit is completed," he says, gesturing across the gigantic Large Hadron Collider, "we shall be ready to explore an entirely new realm of physics."The collider is only five years old but...