August 2005 Issue Cover

On the Cover:
The next generation of accelerators will open up a new scientific territory, the Terascale, for exploration. Particle collisions at the Terascale, the highest energy scale yet, will illuminate the physics of the quantum universe.
 
August 2005:
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Illustrations: Sandbox Studio
Contents
From the Editor
Commentary: Benn Tannenbaum
Particle physics and politics have more in common than meets the eye. Scientists should make their voices heard.
Signal to Background
A foiled attempt; linear-collider papers; videoconference at 40,000 feet; reeds at KEK; femtobarn era; popping balloons; letters.
Voices: Public Participation
The time is now to build the types of relationships needed to make the International Linear Collider project a reality.
Postcards from the Terascale
By discovering the laws of nature at Terascale energies, we can understand the physical laws that define our chilled-down universe.
Global ILC Efforts
Physicists and accelerator experts from around the world are collaborating on the design of the International Linear Collider.
In Their Hands: The Future of Particle Physics
The members of the EPP2010 panel have realized that the field of particle physics is at an important strategic moment.
CLIC: The Compact Linear Collider
A small international collaboration of scientists works on the design of CLIC, a higher-energy linear collider concept.
Gallery: Early Linacs
The 1940s saw the development of linear accelerators that directly led to the two-mile-long Stanford Linear Collider.
Deconstruction: ILC Organization
Many groups and committees play key roles in the planning of the ILC. symmetry provides some guidance.
Essay: Glen White
"I came away convinced that there is no way on Earth any group of mortals could actually make one of these things work."
Logbook: Gluon Discovery
An internal note of the TASSO collaboration at DESY documents the first observation of the gluon in 1979.
60 Seconds: International Linear Collider
The ILC is a proposed machine for discovering the hidden mechanisms of the microphysical world.