Congress's budget cut decelerates U.S. high-energy physics research
Farewell to the Tevatron
The top U.S. particle collider, now eclipsed by a more powerful European machine, will be switched off September 30
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September 29, 2011
Although NOvA has not been canceled, the suspension of funding may lead some of its scientists to abandon the effort. "The question is whether you can put a project on mothballs for a year and bring it back again," says Mark Messier of Indiana University, one of the spokesmen for NOvA. "The signal this sends is, 'Go do your research somewhere else.'"
Mark Alpert is the author of Final Theory, a thriller about high-energy physics that will be published by Touchstone in June.
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Add CommentAnother cost of war, they stepped on the accelerator!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisHow very short-sighted and diasappointing.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWhat was the congressional bill designator? Would like to know how my reps voted.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisdo these congressmen and women really understand particle Physics? ludicrous suckers!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisSome things are too critical to the American Spirit and to the future of science to be nickel and dimed. Congress needs to rise above their partisan issues and envision what science of the future will look like without the USA as a leader. Don't be penny wise and pound foolish! Fund Fermi and it's future excellence.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisTerrible. The Tevatron should before closing measure the speed of neutrinos, which have in Geneva refuted
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisspecial relativity.
Don't close Tevatron!