Perhaps the most amazing part of the discovery -- or almost discovery -- of the Higgs Boson is that the whole thing worked: CERN's Large Hadron Collider was funded, built, turned on. It didn't create black holes. It wasn't sabotaged by the future. And most remarkably, the money didn't run out.
Because the money did run out on an American project: an American supercollider that would've been turned on earlier and would've been stronger than the LHC. It's called the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC). But first, Kurt Andersen.
