Fermilab's Tevatron has been eclipsed by the Large Hadron Collider
(NEWSER) - Long before we feared the Large Hadron Collider would kill us all , the US boasted the world’s leading particle collider—and now, after 25 years, Fermilab’s Tevatron is being shut down. The machine’s biggest achievement was the discovery of the top quark, a subatomic particle that was the last-discovered “building block of matter,” the Washington Post notes. The Tevatron found three of 17 particles considered to be the fabric of the universe. More»
