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Higgins Professor of Physics Sheldon L. Glashow, a Nobel Prize-winning particle physicist--whose letter in favor of the SSC was read on the Senate floor before the vote--considers knowledge to be the sole benefit of this project...
...While Glashow agreed that the project is a costly venture, he said "societyoften has to balance the cost of knowledge andresearch versus the benefits...
...Glashow agreed. "It is practically impossibleto wait. There is a community of people that knowhow to build these machines and a community ofexperimental physicists that know how to usethem...
...wait for 20 years," Glashow said, "thatcommunity will have decayed to the point where itwill be difficult to mount an experiment of thiskind...
...improbable phantom. Their quarry is the top quark, the sole missing member of a family of subatomic particles that form the basic building blocks of matter. Of six types of quarks that are believed to exist, five have already been discovered. "The top," says Harvard University theorist Sheldon Glashow, "is not just another quark. It's the last blessed one, and the sooner we find it, the better everyone will feel...