Megascience

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Megascience and the Powers and Paradoxes of
Pushing Frontiers at Fermilab
Lillian Hoddeson
Fermilab Historian and Professor, Department of
History, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Fermilab Colloquium
June 14, 2006
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There is in mankind a driving urge to explore the
unknown. In past ages much of this exploration
was geographicalthe search for new continents
and new seas. In our generation the most
challenging frontiers lie in the search for new
knowledge about nature and about man, and the
most dramatic progress has been made on the
frontiers of science The frontier of high energy
and the infinitesimally small is a challenge to
the mind of man. If we can reach and cross this
frontier, our generation will have furnished a
significant milestone in human history. M.
Stanley Livingston, 1968 Particle Physics The
High Energy Frontier
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John F. Kennedy's speech of acceptance as
presidential nominee to the Democratic National
Convention on July 15, 1960
.... .... we stand today on the edge of a new
frontier -- the frontier of the 1960's, a
frontier of unknown opportunities and perils, a
frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats. ....
But I tell you the new frontier is here, whether
we seek it or not. Beyond that frontier are
uncharted areas of science and space, unsolved
problems of peace and war, unconquered pockets of
ignorance and prejudice, unanswered questions of
poverty and surplus. .... I believe the times
demand invention, innovation, imagination,
decision. I am asking each of you to be new
pioneers on that new frontier.
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Two Experimental Strings at Fermilab
Upsilon (E-70, 288, 494, 605, 608, 772,789)
Lederman/Good/Rutherfoord/C. Brown/Moss /Peng
Charmed particles (E-516, 691, 769, 791)
Nash/Witherell/Appel
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Thank you!
Lillian Hoddeson hoddeson_at_uiuc.edu
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