pre/post WW-II

In my last post i categorized the history before and after the WW-II. It may be a question why is this? Actually, while the war was on, a number of physicists were involved with the war related stuff... (Research on bomb and high tech stuff). So in those days, many physicists were in connection with many government officials and they could manage convincing for funding of setting up accelerators. So in those days, after few decades, the budget was made and the funds were available for the research so, that was a point, I made. And that was a time when the particles were being discovering...and the accelerators were leading the theory....but lately in the 80s the thery developed so far that we needed powerful, high energy accelerator.

The Superconducting Super Collider

But now a day, after the cold war. The soviet broke up. And USA brought many Russian brains to their country, and the budget was cut and accelerators were run out of fund. Finally SSC (Superconducting Super Collider) was terminated. So, like this, (this was due to gulf war) many other projects were either terminated or cut the budgets...or they put pressure to earn money in their own way...So, it was hopeless...

The Large Hadron Collider

But recently the CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire) is setting up the LHC (large Hadron Collider) which is almost done. And expected to be in operation in May 2008. However, if the SSC were in operation that could produce 20 TeV amount of energy. But this LHC will produce 14 TeV... But yet this is a hope to have something higher.