Land Of Big Science

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Land Of Big Science
from Newsweek
The eyes of the world are on Geneva, where scientists are expected to  
throw the switch this week on what may be the biggest experiment ever  
conducted. It's certainly the most expensive.
... Probing more deeply than ever before into the stuff of the  
universe requires some big hardware. It also requires the political  
will to lavish money on a project that has no predictable practical  
return, other than prestige and leadership in the branch of science  
that delivered just about every major technology of the past hundred  
years.
... The Large Hadron Collider, as the Geneva machine is called, is a  
symptom of America's decline in particle physics and Europe's rise.  
Many scientists and educators fear that it also signals a broader  
decline in scientific leadership on the part of the United States.
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