Maintaining Fermilab at physics frontier
The Courier News: Mention the words "particle physics" and most people begin to go cross-eyed. But the study of this arcane subject has led scientists around the world to a greater understanding of how the universe is formed, what is inside an atom and what new particles are out there in space. For years, brilliant American scientists have dominated the field of particle physics and the investigations into the nature of matter, space, energy and time — the very origins of the universe itself.