Rare Isotope accelerator?

What is that? A rare isotope accelerator? Sounds sexy.

And it costs $1.1 billion. Ah, the government and their toys.


Read about it here
thomas.loc.gov...:33:./temp/~c109K5Gt0E:e1014765:

Rare isotope research encompasses producing and then studying rare isotopes that may have existed on earth at its origin but have long since decayed, taking their information about the origin of the elements—and the universe—with them. Producing isotopes that no longer exist naturally on earth provides nuclear scientists with the opportunity to explore the beginnings of matter and, ultimately, life.

www.nscl.msu.edu...

Google is your Friend.

It sounds like a way to figure out how life started, and what was going on during the formation of the Earth.

Cool but I think this discussion belongs in the Technology forum.