Return of the Will?
THE PRESIDENT has approved it, and if Congressgoes along, America will be the home of the world's largest atom-smasher in the 1990s. The machine, 52 miles in length, and $4 to $6 billion in cost, will boost proton beams to energies twenty times higher than have ever been achieved on earth. The collisions that ensue will replicate, in miniature, the conditions of the first instants after "Let there be light.' The world of subatomic physics, which has been ...