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14 - Super Collider Days

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 November 2024

Steven Weinberg
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University of Texas, Austin
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In the 1980s, two groups of physicists in Europe and America began to lay plans for a high energy proton accelerator that could settle the question of electroweak symmetry breaking. In 1984, Weinberg is appointed to the SSC Board of Overseers, and this work would occupy his time for much of the next decade. Weinberg testifies before Congress in favor of the SSC project and starts to appreciate the role of pork-barrel politics in the siting decisions. The Texas site of Waxahachie, near Dallas, is approved in 1988. The project’s construction funding is approved but faces ongoing challenges from other competing areas of science. Changes in the specifications, required by the science goals, lead to increases in the costs, resulting in bad press. In 1993, the funding was cut, and the SSC was killed off. Weinberg writes a successful trade book, Dreams of a Final Theory.

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Print publication year: 2024

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  • Super Collider Days
  • Steven Weinberg, University of Texas, Austin
  • Book: Steven Weinberg: A Life in Physics
  • Online publication: 22 November 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009513487.015
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  • Steven Weinberg, University of Texas, Austin
  • Book: Steven Weinberg: A Life in Physics
  • Online publication: 22 November 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009513487.015
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  • Super Collider Days
  • Steven Weinberg, University of Texas, Austin
  • Book: Steven Weinberg: A Life in Physics
  • Online publication: 22 November 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009513487.015
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