How Many Billion-Dollar Accelerators Do We Need?
An epic project that turned out to be an epic fail. What have we learned…
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7 min readApr 24, 2022
The colossal Superconducting Super Collider (SSC), a particle accelerator that would collide energetic protons of impressive 20 TeV/proton (tera-electron-volt per proton), was advertised as the most powerful accelerator the world has ever seen. It would still…
