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Nature news: Accelerator plans stalled after US and UK cuts

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Budget woes spell trouble for International Linear Collider

The machine on which the world's particle physicists have staked the future of their discipline hangs in the balance owing to budget cuts.

On 18 December, the US Congress passed a spending bill slashing funding for the International Linear Collider (ILC), a 31-kilometre machine to collide electrons with positrons, by three-quarters to just $15 million in 2008, money that has already been spent. The United States pays for around a third of the collider's roughly $100-million–120-million annual global research and development effort. And a week earlier, the United Kingdom announced that it was withdrawing from the project, describing plans for it as “not credible”. The decision will help make up an £80-million ($160-million) shortfall at the funding body responsible for UK high-energy physics.
Stanford local angle: San Jose Mercury News: Stanford physics lab to lay off 125 people

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LINEAR ACCELERATOR'S FUNDING WAS SLASHED, ENDING SOME RESEARCH

The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, one of the nation's premier physics research laboratories, is planning to stop work on two key projects and lay off more than 125 people because of a surprise reduction in federal spending on the physical sciences.

The largest layoff in the history of the lab will hit hardest in the discipline of high-energy physics, SLAC Director Persis Drell told employees Monday.

SLAC had expected about $120 million in high-energy physics funds; instead it got about $95 million. Every program dealing with research in particles and particle astrophysics faces significant reductions.

"This transition will not be gentle or slow," Drell said in a SLAC-wide Webcast on Monday. "It will be painful and it will be hard."
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So much money in the world, but so little of it goes to science... :-(
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Maybe if they suggest it will reduce global warming
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That would be good if it really was going to, but they shouldn't have to lie about what they want money for.
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Why not, it's the language of politics
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But it is the language of the ordinary people, in the end, that matters.
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Tell the politicians that....
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We do, every Election Day, we show them what we want.
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You obviously forgot to show them we want an I.L.C.
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I protested strongly to my senator and congress critter that I wanted the SSC. Fat lot of good it did!
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But what matters is that you tried. It's better to try and fail than just stand by and do nothing.
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My MP would not know what an I.L.C. was if one bit his arse.....





Do I.L.C.'s do that
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My MP would not know what an I.L.C. was if one bit his arse.....
Indeed, such ignorance is common in the US Congress, as well. The lack of funding for basic science is a national disgrace.
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