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Superconducting Supercollider Big Science took a big hit when Congress finally pulled the plug on the Superconducting Supercollider, the 54-mile-around atom smasher that was supposed to be the world's largest and most sophisticated scientific instrument but is now just a $2 billion hole in the ground. The SSC was doomed when its projected cost escalated from $5 billion to more than $11 billion, making it look less like Big Science and more like Big Bloated Bureaucracy...
...Super Smash Bros., a best-selling multiplayer Nintendo 64 game. Not content simply to play among roommates and friends, William O. Gallery ’04 and Peter F. Epstein ’04 helped organize a Smash tournament last Saturday to award Smash-derived bragging rights to one smasher. “We had three groups of people that all claimed they were the best Smash players in the school and we all wanted to settle the score,” Epstein says. Before anyone even picked up a controller, a flurry of increasingly vitriolic e-mails flew between...
DIED. ROBERT R. WILSON, 85, pioneering physicist; in Ithaca, N. Y. Wilson worked with Enrico Fermi on the Manhattan Project, which led to the development of the atom bomb. In 1972 he constructed the world's largest particle smasher...
...American physicist Ernest Lawrence dreams up the cyclotron, the first atom smasher...
Responding to America's fear of communism inthe late '40s and the emerging threat of nuclearwar with the Soviet Union, the University equippedits nuclear laboratory with a new cyclotron and"atom smasher...