The Tevatron and the LHC alone are powerful enough to probe energy ranges where the Higgs may reside.

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The energy that would be needed to probe the granularity of space is known as the Planck energy.

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As the radioisotope decays, it produces heat energy that is converted by thermoelectric materials into the electricity that powers the space probe.

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The energy giant's former vice chairman was considered a "bit player" in the Enron probe, but "someone told us he had information that would be useful, " the source said.

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Freeh and former Energy Secretaries Pena and Hazel O'Leary are certain to be targets of the Cox panel's probe.

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Although the probe would carry no cameras in the classic sense, its onboard instruments would include a low-energy charged particle experiment, a magnetometer, a cosmic ray detector, and an energetic neutral atom detector.

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