Damn Interesting » America's Discarded Superconducting Supercollider

Damn Interesting » America's Discarded Superconducting Supercollider: "Deep beneath the plains of central Texas lies a catacomb of tunnels once meant to house the most expensive physics experiment ever devised. That experiment, the Superconducting Supercollider, would have revolutionized our understanding of the physical world by giving us our first glimpse of the 'God Particle.' And, proposed during the Cold War, it would have been a monument to the technological and scientific prowess of the Western world."