Sentences with phrase «superconducting supercollider»

Following the cancellation of its $ 11 billion Superconducting Supercollider, the US may help to foot the bill for the SSC's one - time rival.

Yet he also sold Reagan on backing what would have been the country's most expensive scientific facility, the proton - bashing Superconducting Supercollider in Texas (a project Congress killed in 1993).

The demise of the superconducting supercollider last month has left physicists around the world stunned and confused.

It has been a long time coming; there has been a lot of disappointment along the way; you know the Superconducting Supercollider.

A new book on the rise and fall of the Superconducting Supercollider (SSC) by a trio of science historians takes on that challenge.

The killing of the Superconducting Supercollider (see This Week) is a watershed.

Stung by revelations that funds for the Superconducting Supercollider were spent on tropical plants and Christmas parties, the US energy secretary is considering whether to sack the university consortium that is building the giant particle accelerator.

«The Superconducting Supercollider sounded like the kind of diabolical weapon a comic - book super-villain might build in his (or her) lair to hold the world to ransom.

America hopes to save millions of dollars on the cost of its giant superconducting supercollider by buying magnets and part - icle detectors from scientific institutes in Russia.

After months of uncertainty, the $ 11 - billion superconducting supercollider has been pronounced dead.

The recently cancelled Superconducting Supercollider would have been but the latest incarnation of the «Los Alamos model».

: The killing off the superconducting Supercollider sent shock waves through particle physicics.

That's where the Superconducting Supercollider, a 54 - mile - long underground circular particle accelerator, was supposed to smash protons together and glean vital clues from the subatomic wreckage.