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There's a hole in Texas, and we've come full circle. This is a story about the greatest failure in American physics: The Superconducting Super Collider. Part 3 of 3.

Part 1:    • Ronald Reagan & the Biggest Failure i...  
Part 2:    • George Bush vomited & set Physics bac...  

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The primary source on all things SSC is the book "Tunnel Visions", which I used as a blueprint to map out the series. Many of the quotes are taken from that book, which used primary interviews and are sourced very extensively. Stuff involving budgets and congress I accessed from the official government websites, including votes on bills and amendments, and inflation calculations were done by myself using an online tool. There are a bunch of other documents I read through such as "The Global Research and Development Landscape and Implications for the Department of Defense", "A TIMELINE OF MAJOR PARTICLE ACCELERATORS", "United States nuclear forces, 2019", "High Energy Physics Advisory Panel's Subpanel on Vision for the Future of High-Energy Physics May 1994", "The Intellectual Spoils of War? Defense R&D, Productivity and International Spillovers", "Accessory to War by Neil DeGrasse Tyson", "The Mission by David W Brown", "The God Particle (The Higgs boson) by Leon Lederman".

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0:00 The Day Physics Ended
3:11 The Revenge of the C Students
11:09 A Bridge Too Far
21:56 Buried in Waxahachie
31:04 Fewer Ribs, More Fondue

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