Wired.com:
The
Superconducting Super
Collider has been a stain on US scientific history ever
since the project was canceled in 1993,
says
Paul Berger in
Wired magazine.
It was hoped the collider would reveal new forms of matter and
energy, like the elusive
Higgs
boson, by firing proton beams in opposite directions and
smashing atoms into each other inside a 54-mile circular tunnel
buried 250 feet underground (see photo of tunnel construction
left).US physicists had to give up the project in Texas after
Congress yanked funding—though not before the Department
of Energy had built infrastructure, warehouses, and almost 15
miles of underground tunnels at a $2 billion cost to the US
taxpayer.The land and facilities are now up for sale, and yours
for only $20 million.
From the Physics Today archive
SSC cost and size
perplex Congress, Irwin Goodwin, May 1984
SSC design goes
to DOE: ICFA discusses CERN hadron collider, Gloria B.
Lubkin, June 1984
R & D funding
for the Super Collider, Gloria B. Lubkin, October 1984
The SSC: A machine
for the nineties, Sheldon L. Glashow and Leon M. Lederman,
March 1985
Reagan endorses
the SSC, a colossus among colliders, Irwin Goodwin, March
1987
The SSC vs
Murphy's Law, Robert J. Yaes, Edwin L. Goldwasser, July
1987
Will High-
T
c superconductivity affect the SSC's design?
Irwin Goodwin, August 1987
Alternatives to
the Superconducting Super Collider, Freeman Dyson, February
1988
Amazing race: The
SSC contest generates disorder and discord, Irwin Goodwin,
May 1988
SSC alternatives:
Critics collide with Dyson, Edwin L. Goldwasser, Robert
Siemann, Martin Einhorn and Gordon Kane, A. Abashian, and
Freeman Dyson May 1988
SSC: Essential
science or unnecessary expense? Robert E. Marshak, Lels L.
Larson, Michael J. Glaubman, Daniel M. Smith, Steven Weinberg,
John F. Waymouth, October 1988
Four reasons for
forsaking the SSC, Truman Hunter, May 1990
A proposed
detector for the SSC is approved, Bertram Schwarzschild
March 1991
As SSC project
accelerates, its cost exceeds $8.2 Billion, Irwin Goodwin,
March 1991
What's gone wrong
with the SSC? It's political, not technological, Irwin
Goodwin, August 1992
Tunnel boring
begins at Superconducting Super Collider, Bertram
Schwarzschild, March 1993
Some thoughts on
the SSC and the management of science, Sidney D. Drell,
July 1993
Congress cancels
SSC and allocates high budgets for technology in 1994,
Irwin Goodwin, November 1993
An open letter to
colleagues who publicly opposed the SSC, Leon M. Lederman,
March 1994
The SSC's end:
What happened? And what now?, Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky, Doug
Pewitt, David R. Nygren, Pierre Ramond, Robert J. Reiland,
Christopher Carone, Rustum Roy, March 1994
Reassigning blame
for the SSC's demise, Timothy E. Toohig and Lawrence
Cranberg, October 1994
Four years after
SSC's demise, US Reaches agreement on 'unprecedented'
collaboration in CERN's LHC, Irwin Goodwin, January
1998
It was hoped the collider would reveal new forms of matter and
energy, like the elusive
Higgs
boson, by firing proton beams in opposite directions and
smashing atoms into each other inside a 54-mile circular tunnel
buried 250 feet underground (see photo of tunnel construction
left).US physicists had to give up the project in Texas after
Congress yanked funding—though not before the Department
of Energy had built infrastructure, warehouses, and almost 15
miles of underground tunnels at a $2 billion cost to the US
taxpayer.The land and facilities are now up for sale, and yours
for only $20 million.
From the Physics Today archive
SSC cost and size
perplex Congress, Irwin Goodwin, May 1984
SSC design goes
to DOE: ICFA discusses CERN hadron collider, Gloria B.
Lubkin, June 1984
R & D funding
for the Super Collider, Gloria B. Lubkin, October 1984
The SSC: A machine
for the nineties, Sheldon L. Glashow and Leon M. Lederman,
March 1985
Reagan endorses
the SSC, a colossus among colliders, Irwin Goodwin, March
1987
The SSC vs
Murphy's Law, Robert J. Yaes, Edwin L. Goldwasser, July
1987
Will High-
T
c superconductivity affect the SSC's design?
Irwin Goodwin, August 1987
Alternatives to
the Superconducting Super Collider, Freeman Dyson, February
1988
Amazing race: The
SSC contest generates disorder and discord, Irwin Goodwin,
May 1988
SSC alternatives:
Critics collide with Dyson, Edwin L. Goldwasser, Robert
Siemann, Martin Einhorn and Gordon Kane, A. Abashian, and
Freeman Dyson May 1988
SSC: Essential
science or unnecessary expense? Robert E. Marshak, Lels L.
Larson, Michael J. Glaubman, Daniel M. Smith, Steven Weinberg,
John F. Waymouth, October 1988
Four reasons for
forsaking the SSC, Truman Hunter, May 1990
A proposed
detector for the SSC is approved, Bertram Schwarzschild
March 1991
As SSC project
accelerates, its cost exceeds $8.2 Billion, Irwin Goodwin,
March 1991
What's gone wrong
with the SSC? It's political, not technological, Irwin
Goodwin, August 1992
Tunnel boring
begins at Superconducting Super Collider, Bertram
Schwarzschild, March 1993
Some thoughts on
the SSC and the management of science, Sidney D. Drell,
July 1993
Congress cancels
SSC and allocates high budgets for technology in 1994,
Irwin Goodwin, November 1993
An open letter to
colleagues who publicly opposed the SSC, Leon M. Lederman,
March 1994
The SSC's end:
What happened? And what now?, Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky, Doug
Pewitt, David R. Nygren, Pierre Ramond, Robert J. Reiland,
Christopher Carone, Rustum Roy, March 1994
Reassigning blame
for the SSC's demise, Timothy E. Toohig and Lawrence
Cranberg, October 1994
Four years after
SSC's demise, US Reaches agreement on 'unprecedented'
collaboration in CERN's LHC, Irwin Goodwin, January
1998
