Comments on: America’s Discarded Superconducting Supercollider

By: Reid Glanzer

Reid Glanzer — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 05:09:41 +0000

I correct not protons but photons. light ain’t a positive charged atom, only has the potential to be one (e=mc2) secret of the stars.

By: Reid Glanzer

Reid Glanzer — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 04:04:28 +0000

Carcer said: “Let me get this straight…they wanted to build a machine that recreate engergies equal to or near those that theorized to be present just after the Big Bang? The Big Bang? The event that supposedly created the Universe, and they wanted the whole thing contained in a podunk town in Texas? Yeah…scientists are crazy. That is all.”

Scientists aren’t evil they crash protons together to see their internal parts when they crash together at nearly the speed of light and it is a marvel of human intellect that they can even pull this off you ass. Be at least intelligent enough instead of an ass. please beleive to understand that America gave up on this dream so they could cut spending after investing 15 million dollars on a project they abandoned so we couldn’t achieve this same goal and forget scientific progress after landing on the moon and splitting the atom. STUPID FUCKING POLITICIANS.

By: abc

abc — Sat, 10 May 2014 13:46:22 +0000

Have you ever considered the difference between energy and energy density?
Obviously not…

By: David

David — Sat, 19 Apr 2014 22:55:42 +0000

I really think the whole thing was smoke and mirrors..to throw people off the track on what they were really doing in Waco! Dump all that money into a hole in the ground and then deside to close it down and do nothing with it? Our government and Military had other plans for it from the start. Have you tryed to go there? Did the Armed Guards let you in? Wake Up!

By: Caud

Caud — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:39:56 +0000

Damn shame lots of minors that came from all over the country to work this project, got lay off slips with short notice.I know, I was one of them. I can name most of the minors in these pictures. We all invested lots of money to move our families to Waxahachie, bought homes. Then with a whim the goverment shut it down. We was ahead of schedule and below budget. We needed about 6 months more to give them all the tunnel work. Then they would of had a usable product, now they just got useless huge holes in the ground.

By: bbobb

bbobb — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 19:47:05 +0000

And now, the very big news about very small particles– July 4th 2012, it was announced that the Higgs boson has been discovered at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. Although most people don’t understand it, it is HUGE news in the field of physics. They did have the advantage of “upgrading” an existing collider tunnel to reduce expense, and it cost about $110 billion over 2 years.

By: sparkyfour4

sparkyfour4 — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 23:54:45 +0000

Damn! Can’t you all understand? Building this thing would leave the rest of the world in the dust. It could lead to antigravity and traveling interstellar just on it’s basic premises. W are so far behind now that I am ashamed of our country for not having a leader with a backbone. We could be traveling to other stars and planets within this century if we would get off our asses…improve our education especially related to science and technology and get the job done!
Everyone keeps heralding the graces of the CERN and it LHC. ITS A JOKE COMPARED TO WHAT WE COULD DO! Ours would be able to reach 3 to four times the power of the Large Hadron Collider. I am so ashamed. We will never see interstellar space in our lifetimes at this rate!

Spark

By: Dr.Scholz

Dr.Scholz — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:44:34 +0000

I grew up in Waxahachie Tx and we knew all the entrances to the under ground tunnels. we would throw huge parties and play paintball under ground. one of my friends actually broke into the building. he said the building was filled with old police records.

By: Albpoolshark

Albpoolshark — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 04:01:14 +0000

wow i came here looking for intelligent comments that would further help me research supercolliders… and all i found was crap, although it’s well spoken

what’s the phrase? you can polish a turd…

oh and don’t bother arguing with each other (creationists and evolutionists) because i really doubt anyone here will actually “convert” someone else… let alone over the internet where people’s thoughts are unfiltered (mine too) and harsher than what would be said if two people were face to face

By: blackzeroflame

blackzeroflame — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:52:59 +0000

The entire reason I live in Texas is actuall the direct cause of the Supercollider. My dad was the head of the magnetics department and we moved to Hachie when I was about 3 years old (my dad was living there shortly after I was born.) It’s pretty amazing to see an article about a project that impacted my life so strongly. I’ve actually been in the tunnels, and have been around much of the complex. My older brothers even learned how to drive out at the old abandoned lots. We used to launch model rockets out there and fly radio-controlled airplanes. My dad’s even got one of the magnets from the project, it is incased in plastic, and we use it as a paper weight.

As for entrances to the tunnels, as far as I know, they’ve all be sealed. I belive the tunnels have been filled with cement, but I could be wrong. I think they’ve started to convert the old buildings into office space or something.