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High-energy particle physics would be more than a decade ahead of where it is now. Moreover, as SSC was planned as a 40 TeV machine, and LHC reaches 14 TeV now
by ISL 7y ago
High-energy particle physics would be more than a decade ahead of where it is now.
Moreover, as SSC was planned as a 40 TeV machine, and LHC reaches 14 TeV now (at presumably much higher luminosity), SSC might have discovered something that still has not been observed.
- jchallis 7y agoThere is also an excellent chance that the standard model is the story up to 100TeV and these expensive programs take away attention from better science endeavors.