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Nature 394, 309 (23 July 1998) | doi:10.1038/28470

Accelerator project digs itself into a hole

Carl Levitin

The head of a leading Russian physics institute is under attack from colleagues for refusing to salvage a multi-million-dollar boring machine being used to dig a tunnel for a new particle accelerator.Anatoly Logunov, director of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of High Energy Physics in Protvino, 70 kilometres south of Moscow, is known for rejecting Einstein's theory of General Relativity, the existence of black holes and the 'Big Bang' for his own theories of matter.