Big Bang

'Big Bang' Pioneers Rethink Banking Overhaul

Wall Street Journal | MARK WHITEHOUSE | Posted 04.30.2009 | Business


LONDON -- In the 1980s, London launched a radical set of market reforms known as Big Bang, turning the city into ground zero of a revolution that bega...

Obama's Big Bang Could Do the Trick

Diane Francis | Posted 03.06.2009 | Business


Diane Francis

What appears to be looming is a massive pre-emptive devaluation of the U.S. dollar as Team Obama readies itself to announce the "Big Bang."

Origin Sins

David Horton | Posted 10.24.2008 | Media


David Horton

The messenger is the message I suppose. Mindless promotion of religion by short-sleeved-nylon-shirted-sweaty-underarmed, tie-clasped, comb-overed, sta...

Large Hadron Collider, The Big Bang Machine That Can Destroy The Earth, Passes First Tests

AP | ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS | Posted 10.11.2008 | Home


GENEVA — A small blip on a computer screen sent champagne corks popping among physicists in Switzerland. Near Chicago, researchers at a "pajama ...

CERN's 17-Mile-Long Atom Smasher To Re-Enact 'Big Bang'

AP | ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS | Posted 10.08.2008 | Home


GENEVA — It has been called an Alice in Wonderland investigation into the makeup of the universe _ or dangerous tampering with nature that could...

Why I Have a Man Crush on the Large Hadron Collider

Marty Kaplan | Posted 09.14.2008 | Living


Marty Kaplan

In physicists' quest for the "God particle," mystics get a new machine .

Does The Secret Of The Universe Lie Underground?

AP | Patrick Baert | Posted 04.16.2008 | Living


British scientist Peter Higgs, whose work is the cornerstone of modern physics, said Monday he is putting champagne on ice in the hope a new experimen...