What went wrong with the SSC, in a nation then usually admired for its can-do attitude? What lessons were learned to apply to future efforts? And what has been the impact on U.S. Last year the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, discovered the Higgs, the biggest event in physics in a generation, and, adding insult to injury, announced it on a U.S. Since then, the glory of particle physics has moved to Europe. Twenty years ago, on October 21, 1993, Congress officially killed the project, leaving behind more than vacant tunnel in the Texas earth. Except the story didn’t play out according to script. to retain dominance in high-energy physics. The Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) that would have graced the rolling prairies of Texas would have boasted energy 20 times larger than any accelerator ever constructed and might have been revealing whatever surprises that lay beyond the Higgs, allowing the U.S.
Peter Higgs, in fact, might have collected his physics Nobel a few years earlier. high-energy physics project would have already found the Higgs particle, having solidly won the competition with its European competitor. If all had gone according to plan, the gargantuan U.S.
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