Breaking into the Supercollider

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Submission + - Breaking into the Supercollider (physicscentral.com)

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BuzzSkyline

on Friday March 25, 2011 @03:53AM

BuzzSkyline writes: "A group of physicists went AWOL from the American Physical Society conference in Dallas this week to explore the ruins of the nearby Superconducting Super Collider. The SSC was to be the world's largest and most ambitious physics experiment. It would have been bigger than the LHC and run at triple the energy. But the budget ran out of control and the project was scrapped in 1993."

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