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Published online 17 October 2007 | Nature 449, 761 (2007) | doi:10.1038/449761a

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Particle collider is on schedule... just

CERN's new machine still aiming for 2008 debut.

Rumours of construction delays at the world's largest particle accelerator have exaggerated the size of the problem, according to the project's head. “There have been no show stoppers,” wrote Robert Aymar, director-general of CERN, the particle physics lab near Geneva, Switzerland, in the 8 October issue of the lab's _CERN Bulletin.

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  • Well, That is a expected thing when we are doing anything of this magnitude and improtance. I think we have to devot all the effort to understand the origin of time and matter.This will give anwers of a billion year question. Why not to give it one more year.

    • 17 Oct, 2007
    • Posted by: Anurag Mishra