I know that the physicists, working, with the LHC at Cern, hope to confirm, this year, whether the Higgs boson exists or not.
Back in 1993 the US Congress cancelled, on cost grounds, a programme to build a particle accelerator called the SSC. If this machine had been built it would have been much more powerful than the LHC.
Can anyone explain, in relatively simple terms, what type of new information, over and above the Higgs, this accelerator might have revealed?