As the director of Fermilab, Lederman was a prominent supporter of the Superconducting Super Collider project, which was endorsed around 1983, and was a major proponent and advocate throughout its lifetime. Also at Fermilab, he oversaw the construction of the Tevatron, for decades the world's highest-energy particle collider. Lederman later wrote his 1993 popular science book The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question? – which sought to promote awareness of the significance of such a project – in the context of the project's last years and the changing political climate of the 1990s. The increasingly moribund project was finally shelved that same year after some $2 billion of expenditures. In The God Particle he wrote, "The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws governing a small number of primordial objects" while stressing the importance of the Higgs boson.
as the director of fermilab lederman was a prominent supporter of the superconducting super collider project which was endorsed around 1983 and was a major proponent and advocate throughout its lifetime also at fermilab he oversaw the construction of the tevatron for decades the world's highest-energy particle collider lederman later wrote his 1993 popular science book the god particle if the universe is the answer what is the question – which sought to promote awareness of the significance of such a project – in the context of the project's last years and the changing political climate of the 1990s the increasingly moribund project was finally shelved that same year after some $2 billion of expenditures in the god particle he wrote "the history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws governing a small number of primordial objects" while stressing the importance of the higgs boson