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In 1993, the U.S. Congress cut off funds for the
Superconducting Super Collider, or SSC. After years of planning, two years of
major construction and $2 billion spent, the most enduring achievement of the
stillborn project was a tunnel from nothing to nowhere near Waxahachie, Texas.
The SSC would have enabled us to explore nature in more
extreme conditions — higher concentrations of energy — than ever before. It
would have yielded fundamental new insights into the origin of the universe and
the nature of matter, space and time. Thousands of scientists devoted big parts
of their careers to the SSC project.
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