September 12, 2008
Commute's a Killer for Physicists in the U.S.
European collider stretches schedules, budgets, and researchers
Like hundreds of other physicists across the United States, Nicholas J. Hadley isn't planning on getting much sleep this Wednesday. Instead, at 5 a.m. Eastern time, this physics professor at the University of Maryland at College Park will be sipping champagne at a party to celebrate the start-up of a huge scientific experiment — a particle-smashing machine called the Large Hadron Collider. The corks must pop so
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