Science Geeks Race to Find Particle

By vouchey in News on Jun 10, 2004 3:42PM

It's annoying how much cred the Coasts get for all their science stuff, while pop culture tends to overlook Chicago's very real contributions to hard-core physics (can we say "splitting-the-atom-at-Stagg-Field"?). But today the Sun-Times points out that the Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia is smashing up a whole lot of particles as they look for the Higgs Boson particle. And they just might find it -- that is if the nasty Eurotrash over at CERN don't find it first.

By the way, Chicagoist has been out to Fermilab and the Argonne National Laboratory in the Southwest 'burbs and we strongly recommend going on the tours of both locations (1, 2). They rock! Especially the buffalo ranging around Fermi's accelerator.