Big Bang

Re-Creating Creation, Take 2: The Large Hadron Collider Fires Up Again

Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 11.24.2009 | World


Ali A. Rizvi

Birds dropping baguettes, terrorist plots and nuclear critics have all tried to derail the Large Hadron Collider, but if all goes according to plan it will be re-creating the Big Bang in no time.

'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...