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...civilian science and technology. But faced with an annual federal budget deficit of about $300 billion, the new President cannot support basic research in the lavish, no-strings fashion that scientists have come to expect. Giant projects such as the superconducting supercollider, the proposed $8.25 billion Texas-based atom smasher that will hunt for quarks and other exotic subatomic particles, will come under increasingly tough scrutiny...
...Secrets of the Universe may have to wait. Last week the House voted to ax most of next year's $483.7 million funding for the superconducting supercollider, designed to be the world's biggest atom smasher. The collider is meant to reveal the mysteries of the sub-sub-atomic world by crashing particles together inside an 86-km (54-mile) oval tunnel that will literally surround the town of Waxahachie, Texas. But it also bears the world's biggest price tag: $8.3 billion all told, and rising. That was too super for even the House...
...particle smasher near Geneva, scientists hope to finally unravel the building blocks that make up matter and energy. But a Stanford team is still trying to beat them...
Charges of political favoritism began to fly almost as soon as Energy Secretary John Herrington announced that Texas had won the competition for the $4.4 billion superconducting supercollider (SSC), designed to be the world's ! largest and most powerful atom smasher. Led by Arizona's Dennis DeConcini, Senators from several also-ran states protested to President Reagan that "there is a widespread perception that this decision was based . . . on political and other factors." They called for an investigation by both the General Accounting Office and a commission of "nationally respected physicists." Other legislators issued similar complaints...
...Harvard physics professors probing the ultimate nature of matter came one step closer last Sunday with the successful test run of the world's most powerful atom smasher at Fermi National Accelerator Lab near Chicago...