Author: Prakash Das
Date: 21:36:25 06/03/99
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On June 03, 1999 at 20:57:21, James B. Shearer wrote: >On June 03, 1999 at 18:36:31, Prakash Das wrote: > > >> Building the super collider in Texas (instead of shelving it) would have >>produced some great advances in high energy physics, and many applications to >>other areas. > > The super collider in Texas was the same sort of wasteful megaproject >that you properly object to in space. Both push existing technology well past >the point of diminishing returns. > James B. Shearer I have to disagree.. yes it's a megaproject too, but building such a supercollider is very complex. It's not the same with the wasteful projects of sending spacecrafts.. those have very low returns and huge problems. The super collider would have allowed us to discover things which we cannot do now. Right now we are restricted to CERN. The SLAC (stanford linear accelerator) and Fermi Lab are too small. The problem with the texas supercollider was not with physicists. Most physicists (that is, those actually knowledgeable about the workings) agreed it would have been a tremendous advance to physics. The problem was with the politicians who do not have the ability to judge scientific projects, even with advisors.
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