Tunnel Visions : The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider

Michael Riordan

ISBN 10: 022659890X / ISBN 13: 9780226598901

Editore: University Of Chicago Press Sep 2018, 2018

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Neuware - Starting in the 1950s, US physicists dominated the search for elementary particles; aided by the association of this research with national security, they held this position for decades. In an effort to maintain their hegemony and track down the elusive Higgs boson, they convinced President Reagan and Congress to support construction of the multibillion-dollar Superconducting Super Collider project in Texas--the largest basic-science project ever attempted. But after the Cold War ended and the estimated SSC cost surpassed ten billion dollars, Congress terminated the project in October 1993.

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• Titolo: Tunnel Visions : The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider
• Editore: University Of Chicago Press Sep 2018
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 022659890X
• ISBN 13: 9780226598901
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 227 L x 150 A x 30 P (millimetri) 227 millimetri di larghezza per 150 millimetri di altezza per 30 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 634 grammi

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Starting in the 1950s, US physicists dominated the search for elementary particles; aided by the association of this research with national security, they held this position for decades. In an effort to maintain their hegemony and track down the elusive Higgs boson, they convinced President Reagan and Congress to support construction of the multibillion-dollar Superconducting Super Collider project in Texas—the largest basic-science project ever attempted. But after the Cold War ended and the estimated SSC cost surpassed ten billion dollars, Congress terminated the project in October 1993.

Drawing on extensive archival research, contemporaneous press accounts, and over one hundred interviews with scientists, engineers, government officials, and others involved, Tunnel Visions tells the riveting story of the aborted SSC project. The authors examine the complex, interrelated causes for its demise, including problems of large-project management, continuing cost overruns, and lack of foreign contributions. In doing so, they ask whether Big Science has become too large and expensive, including whether academic scientists and their government overseers can effectively manage such an enormous undertaking.

Informazioni sull?autore

Michael Riordan, a physicist and science historian, is author of The Hunting of the Quark and coauthor of Crystal Fire. Lillian Hoddeson, the Thomas Siebel Professor Emerita of the History of Science at the University of Illinois, is coauthor of Crystal Fire, Critical Assembly, True Genius, and Fermilab: Physics, the Frontier, and Megascience. Adrienne W. Kolb was, until her retirement in mid-2015, the Fermilab archivist. She is coauthor of Fermilab: Physics, the Frontier, and Megascience.