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Article: Physicists brace for life without collisions. (includes related article)
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- Insight on the News
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- October 10, 1994
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Life without the Super Collider will be difficult for American physicists. The project's demise could end U.S. preeminence in science and technology.
Physicists use powerful particle accelerators to probe some of the universe's deepest secrets, but generating political and public support for these expensive experiments has become increasingly difficult.
In October 1993, the House pulled the plug on the Superconducting Super Collider, a huge -- and hugely expensive -- experimental machine under construction beneath the plains of Texas. The cancellation of its most ambitious project has left the American physics profession in disarray. Scientists and ...