Posted by Mike Kremer on Jun 05, 2003 at 19:21
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GENEVA, Switzerland (Reuters) -- Europe's top particle physics research center inaugurated a huge bottle-shaped vault which will house Atlas, an enormous detector of the micro-items of matter that make up life, the universe and everything.
The completed particle accelerator, which is due to start up in 2007, aims to recreate the conditions that existed within less than a billionth of a second after the "Big Bang" explosion -- probably around 15 billion years ago -- that created the known universe.
**Lets hope they know what they are doing. This project is Big.
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