US Science Funding in FY2007 Budget

Here is a bit more on the recent debacle of US science funding. This is a well-done article on the catastrophe that was just recently averted. It describes how we arrived at the mess, what could have happened had the mess continued, and how we had barely survived it.

Science, and especially basic physics research, is still not out of the wood. Funding for fields such as astronomy and high energy physics is still very dire. The Tevatron at Fermilab WILL still end its operations by the end of 2009, ending ALL major high energy physics collider experiments on US soil for the first time in the history of high energy physics.

So there are still more work to be done here.

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