This is partly because, in the words of former Fermilab director and self-identified “funeral director of the SSC” Dr. The story has never been told in its entirety. But why? Why was the lab abandoned? Why was so much of it built at all? What happened to the Superconducting Super Collider? So just as we suspected, there is a ghost lab in East Texas, complete with half empty frappuchino bottles on the counters and haunting footprints on the carpets. The above recording is what it sounded like to stand on this spot. Despite talk of turning the site into a mushroom farm or a data center, the site hasn’t been used for much other than a filming location for Universal Soldier: The Return, which even we aren’t curious enough to watch.īut wondering about what’s actually there, Nick and I decided to search for its remains on our way from Chicago to Los Alamos. Today, several of the buildings and 14 miles of the planned 54-mile-long tunnel sit abandoned in the Texas desert - the tunnel intentionally filled with water in order to preserve it.
Had it been completed, we would probably not be waiting with bated breath for the hints of the Higgs Boson from the LHC: the Higgs and a slew of other physics would most likely be among the recent accomplishments of jubilant experimental physicists.Īlas, after ten years of planning and $2 billion in construction costs, Congress pulled the plug on the project in 1993.
Slated to begin operations in 1999 in Waxahachie, Texas, the SSC would have been nearly three times as powerful as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The Superconducting Super Collider is rarely discussed anymore, but its ghost has haunted high energy physics for the last 16 years. The site of the abandoned Superconducting Super Collider.
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