But after nearly $2 billion had been spent on the project, Congress pulled the plug in 1993. If completed, it would have been larger in circumference and capable of producing higher energy than the LHC, according to experts who worked on it. The SSC was first proposed in 1983, and construction began in 1991. Today, the site is being turned into a chemical blending facility. But the project stalled, and so did Texas' hopes for the Higgs boson. Decades ago, a similar machine called the Superconducting Super Collider, was nearly built in Waxahachie, 30 miles south of Dallas. On Wednesday, they announced, that they have found a new particle that matches the description of the Higgs boson, though confirmation is still needed. Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland have been searching for the Higgs boson, a fundamental, yet to-date elusive, subatomic particle, for years. It's a breakthrough Texas lost its chance to try for almost two decades ago, when Congress defunded the costly project. Scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) have unveiled the discovery of a tiny particle Wednesday that may help them understand the nature and even the origin of the universe.
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