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Tevatron Has Come To the End of Its Run

Posted by timothy on from the spin-one-for-the-gipper dept.

Med-trump writes "The U.S. government's Chicago-area Fermilab has been at the forefront of high-energy physics. That's in large part thanks to the Tevatron, the machine that first reached the energies needed to discover the last quark in the Standard Model. But the Tevatron has come to the end of its run; at 2pm on Friday, it will be shut down for the last time."

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  1. Expect to see parts at... by ackthpt · · Score: 3, Funny

    Weird Stuff and hamfests.

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  2. Re:NN? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Don't worry about him, he is probably just a nigger.