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PAGE 2, HUDSPETH COUNTY HERALD-Dell Valley Review, MAY 22, 1987
Dallas Times Herald
Sunday, April 26, 1987
PAUL HARVEY NEWS
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from hot hyd.-pgen gas and speeds
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OF THE TIMES HERALD STAFF
The main campus
buildings house offices,
laboratories, warehouses
and support facilities.
The Superconducting Super Collider
A search for the origin of matter
would, be buried between 30 feet to 500 feet under-
ground. depending on the sit-' chosen. In the tunnel,
two streams of protons would smash itead-on at near-
light speed, breaking the atomic particles into their
smallest parts like a hueleaf nutcracker.
For a fraction of second, the energy at the point ot
impact would be a billk-t: times greater than tn the
heart of the.sun. The titty collisions recreate.the scene
one billionth of one billionth of a second after the “Big
Bang,” the theorized explosive birth of the universe.
Although the technology manipulates atomic parti-
cles, it should not be confused with nuclear weapons or
power plants. Unlike reactors and bombs, the machine
will use no radioactive fuel and pose no radiation haz-
ard; it can’t, blow up.
The collisions involve only individual atomic parti-
cles, too small to pose any danger outside the tunnel.
However, the tunnel-must be buried so that earth can
absorb X-rays and the short-lived radiation that could
be produced during the machine’s operations. The un-
derground location also protects the sensitive equip-
ment from vibration and prevents the escape of a pro-
ton beam should part of the mechanism fail.
Detectable radiation of any sort from the collider
would be far less than that found in the natural envi-
ronment at the earth's surface, scientists say. And when
the machine is off, like a light bulb, no radiation occurs
The 52-mite-icng ms.' ring uses radio waves to accelerate
particles to 20 trillion electron volts. Two streams in
separate tubes circulate in opposite directions. Supercon-
ducting magnets guide protons into head-on collisions,
revealing matter’s smallest particles. "
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When a foundation was formed to establish a permanent library
in the name of President Reagan I was invited to participate.
I am satisfied that presidential libraries - repositories for a Presi-
dent’s papers and memorabilia - are worth whatever they cost.
They are of value to research scholars, to contemporary admirers
and to posterity.
I asked to be excused only because for any newsman thus to be
identified with a seated President and his purposes could be con-
strued as “partisan.”
I did attend the first meeting of the foundation. I was privy to
its plans for a Reagan Library on the campus of Stanford Univer-
sity and I did visit the attractive hilltop site.
And though, as I say, I have no connection whatever with the
project, it was nonetheless distressing for me to hear that the Stan-
ford campus site has been vetoed; that the library will have to be
built elsewhere.
Stanford University’s board of trustees had voted unanimously
in 1985 to build the library. But the board was overruled by the
Stanford faculty.
This raises a significant question as to “who is running the uni-
versity.”
And it’s not just at Stanford that this question is answering itself.
In February, former President Ford, visiting the campus of his
own alma mater, the University of Michigan, was hit with an egg.
Yale’s law school dean, Guido Calabresi, posted a notice remind-
ing students of the right of unpopular voices to be heard. His no-
tice was tom down.
The University of the Pacific withdrew the offer of an honorary
degree to Education Secretary William Bennett.
Smith
Smith, Barnard, Berkeley and Minnesota voted against, demon-
strated against or silenced former U. N. Ambassador Jeane Kirk-
patrick.
The Brooklyn College faculty voted to delete the name of Bis-
hop Francis Mugavero from a list of nominees for honorary de-
grees because he supported the Vatican position on homosexuality.
This, despite his impressive credentials as a liberal of lifelong
service to the poor people of Brooklyn.
In short, the most obnoxious intolerance is not that which has
been making the most news - in Cummings, Ga., or in Howard
Beach, N.Y.
The place where intolerance never sleeps is on America’s college
faculties.
The Wall Street Journal suggests that parents might begin to
decide that places like Palo Alto and Brooklyn are nice places to
visit, but you’d not want your son or daughter to be educated
there.
(c) 1987, Los Angeles Times Syndicate
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Roy Weinstein, professor of high energy physics and
■ Monday: Dallas Inc. looks at the economic impact a
super collider would have on Texas.
dean of the College of Natural Sciences at the Universi-
ty of Houston, has been closely involved in efforts to
bring the collider to Texas. He said the machine marks
the beginning of a what likely will be a century-long
chain of discovery. Once operations begin, he said, “it’ll
take another 30 years to figure out what it means and
another 20 years to apply it.”
Researchers and government officials hope, too, for
another and perhaps more important dividend from the
project.
Scientists from all nations who now flock to Tevatron
or the CERN collider in Switzerland would head for the
project. The Department of Energy expects about 500
researchers will conduct experiments at any given time.
“The nation that has it will attract the best minds of
the world,” Porter said. “It will hopefully encourage
young people to consider studying science.”
The study of matter’s smallest
components now rapidly ap-
proaches the grand-scale study of
all creation. While astronomers
puzzle over forms of matter sur-
rounding what may be a black
hole, physicists try to duplicate
those conditions in particle accel-
erators on earth.
Albert Einstein struggled until
bis death with the belief that a sin-
gle underlying mathematical law
united the four basic natural forces
bn which the universe operates. In
the search for that “grand unified
field theory,” scientists hope to
discover the relation between elec-
tromagnetism and a “strong” force
that binds the atom’s nucleus to-
gether, another “weak” force that
makes the nucleus self-destruct,
causing radioactivity, and a fourth
familiar force — gravity, which as
Lederman says, “is important in
skiing and holding the solar sys-
tems together.”
Researchers predict the super
collidei; will show how gravity fits
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dentists say they can’t predict what will hap-
pen when a proposed $6 billion super atom
smasher begins blasting apart the seams of the
universe in the mid-1990’s.
gu( most, researchers expect the federal gov-
ernment's Superconducting Super Collider, the most
powerful atom smasher ever built, will reveal the most
basic building blocks of matter. Such knowledge could
profoundly affect the nation’s economy and industrial
development through the next century, researchers say.
“There's essentially a guarantee that something new
will show up in this machine,” says Leon Lederman,
who directs Fermi National Laboratory’s “Tevatron” col-
lider in Batavia, Illinois. “This research, being funda-
mental, is unpredictable. You can’t tell what will come
out.”
The collider would separate atomic particles to see
what they’re made of.
If certain area leaders have their way, the secrets of
the universe may be uncovered near Waxahachie. An
early May deadline means those trying to get the colli-
der located in North Texas are hurrying to put a win-
ning proposal together.
Construction may begin in 1989 if Congress approves
the Reagan administration’s recommendation for fund-
ing. Benefits from the super collider, which will be 20
times more powerful than Tevatron, could far exceed its
expected $270 million operating budget.
“It s kind of like the benefits from Columbus getting
on ms ship to sail off the edge of the world,” said Dr.
Arthur Porter, who directs the Houston Area Research
Center, a group of Texas physicists intimately involved
with collider work. “This will be the single largest pro-
ject of its type in our nation’s history. It could certainly
lead to an understanding of nature that could lead to
tremendous discoveries."
The collider would consist of a race-track shaped tun-
nel that’s 10 feet in diameter and 52 miles in length. It
CesctJed booster rings accelerate protons to r treasingiy
higher energies. A four-mite circumference, r-gn energy /
booster splits proton beams in two 'Jrrect.'. ns. /
It will inject protons with an energ, /zZ
of one trillion electron volts /? /
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