And American Science Dies a little More

The giant particle accelerator The Tevatron is shutting down 9/30/11 and a great project becomes victim like SETI, to budget cuts and apathy. (and lets man up here...a healthy dose of ignorance maybe? naaaaaaa, America is the greatest country in the world! It would never bend to the unwashed and uneducated! but I digress)

From the Dvice article:

• The Tevatron particle accelerator was one of the most powerful machines ever constructed. When completed in 1983 it's two massive underground rings could power beams of accelerated protons and anti-protons at energies of up to 1 teravolt and smashed them together, pulling pieces of the fabric of our universe out of the resulting subatomic debris.
• The floundering economy and the politicization of science has meant that there's increasing reluctance to fund major research that doesn't have immediate and tangible benefits.....

and what will you say to your grand-children Mr. Senator / Mrs. Representative when they ask why isn't America great any longer humm?

Read the Dvice article here