五位诺贝尔奖获得者——他们都是粒子物理学家——呼吁里根总统尽快批准实施建设超导超级对撞机的计划。他们遣责花费53亿美元的这部质子—质子对撞机要到1996年才能开始工作,同时怀疑今年国会是否将提供资金来开始这项建设工程。这一呼吁是三月三十日在一封由史蒂文·温伯格和詹姆斯·沃森·克罗宁,瓦尔·洛格 Five Nobel Prize winners - all of them particle physicists - called for President Reagan's approval of the plan to build a superconductor super collider as soon as possible. They blame the proton-proton collider, which spent $ 5.3 billion on it, until it can start work in 1996, while doubting whether Congress will provide funding to begin the construction work this year. The appeal was made on March 30 by a group of Steven Weinberger and James Watson Cronin,