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Big Bang Investigators Want New Atom Smasher
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PARIS -- Scientists behind the European particle collider aimed at uncovering the secrets of the universe don't want to stop there - they want to build an even bigger machine with partners and funds from around the world.
Instead of whirling atoms in giant rings, as CERN, a particle physics laboratory outside Geneva, and the smaller Tevatron at Fermilab near Chicago do, scientists want a new-generation machine that will shoot them straight.
Plans for the next step, a €10 billion ($12.85 billion), 50-kilometer (31-mile) tunnel called the International Linear Collider, were presented to French President Nicolas Sarkozy at a conference in Paris on Monday.
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