Big Bang and bucks set to collide in inner space: The price of exploring inner space went up this week

"At a news conference in Beijing this Thursday, an international consortium of physicists released the first detailed design of what they believe will be the Next Big Thing in physics: a machine 20 miles long that will slam together electrons and their evil-twin opposites, positrons, to produce fireballs of energy recreating conditions when the universe was only a trillionth of a second old." (1.5 page)