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Franklin, who is participating in building partof the SSC, was thrilled at the news but expressedconcern that scientists would receive only part ofthe allocated funds...
Members of the Harvard scientific community reacted favorably to Thursday's Senate vote that would give President Clinton $640 million of funding for the Texas Superconducting Supercollider (SSC), with one physics professor suggesting that the vote represents "a triumph of reason over symbolism...
Previously, the House voted to terminate the project, but the Senate voted Thursday to resurrect it. Professors yesterday said the SSC would lead to a better understanding of nature and its creation, and specifically of high energy physics...
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...
Georgi says he hopes the research done at the SSC will be revolutionary. "[Physicists] will struggle to find landmarks in a new and completely uncharted region of our map," he says...