"Scientists have just built the world's biggest
supercollider, and they're doing experiments to see what makes up protons.
Robots appear as some of the most attractive characters: I loved Kipp, Ada's shy, clumsy companion, not to mention CERN, the
supercollider which has evolved its own mind and personality.
Zaslavskii, "Black Hole as a
Supercollider," International Journal of Modern Physics A, vol.
"FYI: The very concept of a Super Moon is an embarrassment to everything else we call super: Supernova,
Supercollider, Superman, Super Mario Bros," said Tyson on Twitter.
One of the mandarins of Big Science, he had led a team that designed a $1 billion detector for the giant Superconducting
Supercollider, which would have been the world's biggest particle machine had it not been canceled by Congress in 1993, before being asked to take over LIGO.
The US abandoned work on a game-changing
supercollider in the early '90s, partly due to funding.
There's Y12, too--there is a graphite reactor there and also now a
supercollider, one of the largest particle accelerators in the world.
I was good at physics: as a student I worked at the CERN
supercollider. I still miss it.
Galileo didn't have a telescope powerful enough to observe the astronomical movements he predicted, and Einstein didn't have a
supercollider; yet their theories about the nature of the universe were still amenable to empirical corroboration once those devices were invented.
The next two issues discusses issues of public distrust in the emergence of
supercollider technology and the management of a large national laboratory.
1991 Ting quits team building detector for Superconducting
SupercolliderSimilarly, Zinovieff's contribution, January Tensions (1968), anticipates both the generative computer programs Koan and Noatikl and the real-time synthesis and live coding of
SuperCollider, Max/MSP, and other electronic music software of the past twenty years.