它的60哩长的圆周能够围得下纽约市的曼哈顿岛、拉丁美洲的巴巴多斯或几乎整个巴林岛。它的20亿呎长的铌—钛导线可能绕地球16圈.运行它所需要的150兆瓦(15万千瓦)的电力可供一个15,000人的城市照明。而它的高达60亿美元的标价可购买6架新型的航天飞机。所有这些都说明,美国能源部可能在八十年代内在美国某个地方建造的这座巨大的粒子加速器——超导巨型对撞机(简称 SSC)可能是物理学上空前巨大、最为复杂和最富有雄心的计划。 Its 60-mile circumference can envelop New York City’s Manhattan Island, Latin America’s Barbados or almost the entire island of Bahrain. Its 2 billion-foot-long niobium-titanium wire may be 16 laps around Earth, and the 150 megawatts (150,000 kilowatts) it requires to run a city for 15,000 people. And its up to $ 6 billion price tag can buy 6 new space shuttle. All of this shows that the giant particle accelerator that the U.S. Department of Energy may possibly built somewhere in the United States in the 1980s - the Superconducting Giant Collider (SSC) - may be physically unmanaged, the most complex and the most complex Ambitious plan