Higgs Discovery Exciting? We Could Have Found It First!
Thursday, July 5, 2012 - 13:30
in Astronomy & Space
The Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) was not too big to fail. Although it was a massive opportunity for the United States to maintain its primacy in high-energy physics and basic research, the SSC was not sufficiently big on the federal funding list back in the early 1990s even to get built. read more