Submission + - The God particle or bust
mlimber writes: The NY Times has a lengthy article on the Large Hadron Collider: 'The payoff for this investment, physicists say, could be a new understanding of one of the most fundamental of aspects of reality, namely the nature of mass.... But what if the collider sees nothing? That ... would be interesting for the [particle] theorists, who would have to retool and try to think even deeper thoughts about quantum mechanics and relativity, but bad for the experimentalists. Without any results, they would be unlikely to obtain financing for the next big machine planned, the $7 billion International Linear Collider.'
