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...Superconducting Supercollider (SSC) was billed by physicists as their giant microscope to observe the fundamental particles of matter, a tool that would lead to the greatest progress in physics since quantum mechanics...
Brandenburg says three physicists, a large crew of technical people and four engineers were devoted to the SSC project, one of four projects done in the High Energy Physics Laboratory. A handful of other Harvard physicists had worked on theoretical aspects of the machine, including Higgins Professor of Physics Sheldon L. Glashow and Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Howard Georgi...
...tempting to call the SSC's demise the end of big science, but it would be more accurate to describe it as the end of big, bloated, bungled science. The original budget turned out to have omitted several crucial items that surfaced only after Congress approved the project. The superconducting magnets had to be designed a second time after the first try failed. And in June, Energy Department investigators reported that employees were living it up at SSC's Dallas headquarters, freely spending taxpayers' money on liquor, lavish parties and office decor ($56,000 went for potted plants). Energy Secretary...
...early as 1992, the House voted 232 to 181 to kill the SSC, but it was saved in a Senate-House conference. After last week's House vote, though, Senate supporters knew they could not rescue the SSC this time. Just about all the taxpayers have for their $2 billion is a complex of buildings and 14.7 miles of tunnel under the Texas prairie...
...loss of the SSC, along with a near cancellation of NASA's space station Freedom last spring, raises questions about whether the U.S. will ever again tackle so massive a scientific enterprise. Probably not without help, says Erich Bloch, former head of the National Science Foundation: "There's no single country, including ours, that can afford such a big project." In the future, U.S. scientists will have to rely more on international partnerships. A model is the Switzerland-based CERN laboratory, a consortium financed by 18 countries that is building its own giant accelerator. The large hadron collider will...