> Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology
> (NIST) and Max Planck Institute for Physics in Germany believe they
> can achieve a significant increase in the accuracy of one of the
> fundamental constants of nature
>  [http://www.theanalystmagazine.com/may2008/80147501.html]
> by boosting an electron to an orbit as far as possible from the atomic
> nucleus that binds it.