Wham, Bam

Two Harvard physics professors probing the ultimate nature of matter came one step closer last Sunday with the successful test run of the world's most powerful atom smasher at Fermi National Accelerator Lab near Chicago.

Working with an international team of physicists, Professor of Physics Roy Schwitters and George W. Brandenburg, associate director of Harvard's High Energy Physics Laboratory, triumphantly bashed protons and antiprotons at world-record energy levels.

"Working with smaller distances and higher energies," said Schwitters, "We're taking up where [Carlo] Rubbia left off. It's very exciting." Rubbia, a professor of physics at Harvard, won the Nobel Prize in physics last year for his discovery of new subatomic particles.