Commie scientists

["Ian Murray" <seamus2001@xxxxxxxx>]

[Imagine $6billion for ecological research...]
[Full piece at NYT]

JUL 10, 2001
Particle Physicists Plan the Next Big Thing
By JAMES GLANZ

SNOWMASS VILLAGE, Colo., July 7 - The directors of major physics
laboratories in Europe, the United States and Japan gathered at this
mountain resort this week to make plans for a new particle accelerator
they all agreed would be so large, powerful and expensive that it
could be built only if they all cooperated on a scale without parallel
in scientific history.

The machine could cost more than $6 billion, would measure roughly 20
miles from one side to the other and would require so many advanced
technologies that no single country could supply them all. Its goal
would be to mine the areas opened up by evidence indicating that
ultrapowerful new accelerators may be crucial in explaining not just
the nature of matter and energy but also the birth of the universe and
the structure of space and time themselves.

According to some theories, the machine could see evidence for
previously unknown dimensions, beyond the usual four, lurking right
under humanity's noses. Elusive particles that account for most of the
mass of the entire universe - the so-called dark matter - could also
turn up. [snip]