Scientists explore the future of high-energy physics
Friday, February 12, 2010 - 11:07
in Physics & Chemistry
In a 1954 speech to the American Physical Society, the University of Chicago's Enrico Fermi fancifully envisioned a particle accelerator that encircled the globe. Such would be the ultimate theoretical outcome, Fermi surmised, of the quest for the ever-more powerful accelerators needed to discover new laws of physics. Researchers take a new step toward this vision.