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The ultimate goal of particle physics is, in a nutshell, to find a theory of everything. As goals go it is ambitious in the extreme, although the unification of the four fundamental forces of nature will not signal the end of physics as we know it. Crucial to reaching this goal will be a succession of accelerators that will collide subatomic particles at ever-higher energies and will cost ever-larger sums of money. As the four forces become three, then two and finally one, a similar fate might apply to the world's accelerator laboratories.

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