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Tunnel Visions - The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider (Paperback)
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Tunnel Visions - The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider (Paperback)
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Starting in the 1950s, US physicists dominated the search for
elementary particles; aided by the association of this research
with national security, they held this position for decades. In an
effort to maintain their hegemony and track down the elusive Higgs
boson, they convinced President Reagan and Congress to support
construction of the multibillion-dollar Superconducting Super
Collider project in Texas--the largest basic-science project ever
attempted. But after the Cold War ended and the estimated SSC cost
surpassed ten billion dollars, Congress terminated the project in
October 1993. Drawing on extensive archival research,
contemporaneous press accounts, and over one hundred interviews
with scientists, engineers, government officials, and others
involved, Tunnel Visions tells the riveting story of the aborted
SSC project. The authors examine the complex, interrelated causes
for its demise, including problems of large-project management,
continuing cost overruns, and lack of foreign contributions. In
doing so, they ask whether Big Science has become too large and
expensive, including whether academic scientists and their
government overseers can effectively manage such an enormous
undertaking.
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