Re: Super colliders

[RC Macaulay]

Howdy Steven,   You obviously asked the magic question to provoke such a response. Took me a  while to wrap my brain completely around those responses.. from pin headed angels to theoretical particle welfare physics where the speed of the growth of the handout is indirectly proportional to the work product divided by the square of the unthankfulness of the mass. In otherwords.. it ain't never gonna fly the way it's designed. This is an outsider's view of the supercollider. Particle physics is not a science, it's an extremely sophisicated game of marbles. At one time Los Alamos had a pretty fair to middlin' team of particle physicists composed mostly of Russians. Why Russians at Los Alamos?? Because the USA had a total of perhaps 6 qualified particle physicists and they had over 100.  And this was back during the peak of the cold war. I happened to ask one of our physicist why there were Russians at Los Alamos since they were obviously learning our secrets.. The reponse was.. we are learning from them.. not the reverse..   Richard.