Europe Overtakes U.S. in Physics Pursuing God Particle
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The nations of Europe, home to Galileo and Newton, are poised to reclaim the lead in physics from the U.S., as scientists around the world flock to Geneva in search of the so-called God particle.
More than 10,000 scientists are working at the Large Hadron Collider, a 27-kilometer (17-mile) circumference particle accelerator buried beneath France and Switzerland, in search of the Higgs boson, a subatomic particle believed to create mass and hold together the universe. Discovery of the particle -- if it exists -- may be announced this year.