Their work, for example, has helped to focus the search for the Higgs particle, the entity which, according to current theory, gives matter its mass.

ECONOMIST: The 1999 Nobel prizes

Now, once the eurozone were borrowing in this way as a de facto single sovereign entity, then of course these euro bonds would be fully sovereign bonds, available for purchase (in theory) by the central bank (though gawd alone knows whether Germany would allow it).

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