History’s most ambitious science experiment was scheduled to begin this morning on the Swiss-Franco border in Europe in a giant underground particle smasher called the Large Hadron Collider.
As is true of many scientists, Terry Millar, UW-Madison’s associate dean for physical sciences, can hardly contain himself when he starts talking about the groundbreaking nature of the knowledge that could come from the 17-mile, $8 billion loop of steel and magnets and seven-story particle detectors.