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International Linear Collider Race Starts in Physics
from USA Today
Christmas ham, Thanksgiving turkey and Halloween treats only go so far to explain weight gains. Nope, as another New Year rings in, we're going to have to go all the way down to the subatomic scale to get a handle on the mystery of mass, why stuff weighs what it does.
And while we were celebrating over the holiday season, the real race has kicked off in fundamental physics--a $10 billion one aimed at just this massive mystery--and it isn't to find the so-called "God Particle."
Just one day after physicists at Europe's CERN lab announced on Dec. 14, that they had two experiments narrowing in on that elusive elementary particle, more properly called the Higgs boson, Japan's Prime Minister, Yoshihiko Noda kicked off a Tokyo physics symposium by announcing Japan's bid to build the International Linear Collider (ILC) project, the next, big, grand thing in high-energy physics.
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