Atma the Self

Author(s): Punyadarshanvijay
Publisher: Sanmarg Prakashan

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... ĀTMĀ
The Self....
The Quark
Foz
Dallas
Superconducting super collider
World's largest scientific Texas site instrument for the study of the Proposed $8.25 fundamentals of matter.
billion federal
Map Area Ellis County, Texas (around scientific Waxahachie)
installation Estimated cost: $8.25 billion ( $5 billion from U.S., $1 billion
Fort
Dallas from Texas, remainder from Worth
other countries and sources. 1 Amount spent to date: Just
Midlothian under $1 billion federal funds, $227 million state funds.
Waxahachie 1 Estimated completion: 1999
Maypearl
Ennis Builders and managers: U.S. Dept. of Energy, Universities
Collider
Italy Research Assoc. Inc., Texas
Tunnel
15 miles National Laboratory Comm.
15 km The Tunnel
Collision point
35e Red
sowy Midlothier.
Bak
Waxahachio
52 miles around
NORTH
SOUT
Interaction Halls Inside the two pipes narrow beams of protons whirl around the tunnel in opposite directions. Traveling in a vacuum at close to the speed of light and encased in powerful electromagnets held at an ultralow temperature, the proton beams collide.
Injector -
Villalow
PROTON BEAM
PROTON
BEAM
Interaction Halls MEASURES 19 MILES ACROSS
Section
Project history: 1982: Proposed by physicists 1983: Endorsed by Dept. of Energy 1988: Ellis County site chosen 1989: Laboratory set up in Dallas 1990: Texas purchased land Present: 2,000 scientists doing research for the project. First tunnel shaft under construction
Tunnel
Cross
Section Twenty feet below ground,
two rings of metal pipe electromagnetically guide the protons through the 52-mile
concrete tunnel.
The Times of India Ahmedabad 18.9.1992 This Colossal Project stands cancelled due to
48 heavy expenditure involved.