Bringing up the SSC should be done carefully. It's true that Congress killed the project after a lot of money had been spent, land acquired, facilities built, a

Bringing up the SSC should be done carefully. It's true that Congress killed the project after a lot of money had been spent, land acquired, facilities built, and people relocated. On the flip side, the management of the project was far from perfect, and it was expected to go far over budget. If you want to further particle physics these days, campaign for funding the ILC [1]. The Japanese are very interested in hosting and supporting the effort. While the energy is smaller (500 GeV - 1 TeV), the energy per particle (protons are made of three quarks; most collisions at LHC are between gluons) is comparable or greater. Lepton-antilepton colliders are what you really want to do precision science; protons are only used because they're energetically advantageous. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Linear_Collider http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Linear_Collider