Physics Seeks The One

摘要

A new era in physics should have started 11 years agornin Waxahachie, Texas. 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. Cost overruns led Congress to cancel the SSC in 1993. If the project had gone on as planned, "by now wed be asking a new generation of questions and refining them," says theoretical physicist Frank Wilczek, a Nobel laureate at MIT. "But I'm on record as saying we're about to enter a new golden age."