This is why the British are struggling to be part of Europe ... they went ahead and did their own thing turning a dis-used mine into a physics lab ... digging deep for the secrets of the heavens ....
UK digs deep for secrets of cosmos A unique laboratory at the bottom of a Cleveland mine could be the first to discover what is holding the universe together.
Robin McKie, science editor The Observer, Sunday September 7 2008
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At the bottom of Britain's deepest mine, scientists are putting their finishing touches to a device that could solve one of astronomy's most baffling mysteries: the location of the universe's missing matter. If they succeed, the group will snatch some of the glory from one of the most prestigious scientific projects undertaken in recent years: the £3.5bn Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which is to be opened officially in Geneva this week.
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