Th at quest fi rst gave us the cyclotron; then the US laboratory F ERM I LAB b uilt a six-kilometre atomic racetrack known as the TEVAT RO N ; and now, finally, we have Europe's LARG E HADRON CO LLI D ER, 27 kilometres long. The name is sign ificant si nce we've gone from the invention of the ACCELERATOR - linear then ci rcular - to the CO LLI D ER, the impact study of the speed of l ight concluding with the spectacular smashing of the Time B arrier!
A fine illustration of the accident to end all accidents i n this b rand o f time which certain physici sts are asking us to forget co mpletely - Copernican astronomy of the 'telescop ic' origins of the conquest o f space leadi ng, in G eneva, to the ' telescop i ng' , the maj o r collisi o n , of the end of time!
THE GREAT ACCELERATOR
1 Hubert Reeves, The Latest News from the Cosmos, t r. Donald Winkler. To ronto : Stoddart Kids, 1 9 9 7 ·
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