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...Italy of the '70s and '80s seems to have offered even less in the way of speed, unless the turnover rate of its governments counts. By showcasing the equipment used by Carlo Rubbia, the exhibition provides an interesting - though less than pertinent - reminder that Italy has produced a Nobel-winning particle physicist. And the bulky fax machines, computers and cell phones featured from the 1980s seem largely irrelevant...
...Abdus Salam of the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, devised a model that integrated the weak and electromagnetic forces into a so-called electroweak force and predicted the characteristics of the W and Z particles. Their theory was experimentally confirmed when a team led by Carlo Rubbia discovered the W and Z particles at the CERN accelerator near Geneva. In 1979 physicists working with an accelerator in West Germany found experimental evidence for the existence of the gluon, the strong-force carrier. Most physicists believed that a theory called quantum chromodynamics, which explains the strong force, would...
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...what the CERN researchers really expect, and hope, to find is something totally unpredicted. "In science nobody really knows what is going to come next," says Rubbia. "We always pretend that we know the answers, but nature keeps advising us that...
...keep finding new answers, Rubbia is determined to improve CERN's technology. He plans to boost LEP's power 50% in the next year or two. CERN is also trying to persuade its member nations to put up the money to build a proton-proton collider in the same tunnel with LEP. Called the large had ron collider, it would be four times as powerful as the Tevatron and almost half as forceful as the proposed superconducting supercollider in Texas. Rubbia thinks he can finish the LHC several years ahead of the SSC and thus beat the Americans to many...