Cash-Challenged CERN Lifted by Nobel Hunts for BRIC Funds
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The Geneva research center that made the most important find in particle physics in half a century, helping explain how the visible universe holds together, is tapping developing nations to help fund its follow-up act.
CERN’s observation of a Higgs boson last year led to a Nobel Prize in Physics yesterday for Peter Higgs and Francois Englert for their theoretical work predicting the particle’s existence. CERN is now considering new multibillion-dollar projects that may prove that other dimensions exist and track what happened after the Big Bang formed our universe.