Tag: particle physics

The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

  People in Sudbury are used to the idea of digging hundreds of metres underground and finding all sorts of valuable things, such as nickel and copper.  But scientists hope to find something even more valuable in the rock beneath Sudbury over the next few months:  namely, answers to some of the most vexing questions …

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Dr. Tom Wenaus and the Superconducting Super Collider

A couple of years ago I wrote a column about one of the biggest scientific projects of our time, the Superconducting Super Collider, currently under construction in Texas.  I didn’t know at the time that a Regina man is one of the scientists working on it.   Dr. Torre Wenaus is a staff physicist at …

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The Superconducting Super Collider

A few weeks ago I wrote about the Human Genome Initiative, “biologists’ equivalent of the Apollo program.”  But there’s an even bigger and more expensive initiative happening down in Texas that you might call physicists’ equivalent of Apollo.   This gigantic (in every sense of the word) project is called the Superconducting Super Collider, or …

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