"We think of it as disconnecting the animal devices from a beloved boiler" says Roger Dixon, head of the accelerator division at Primilab
The combination of the fact that the Republican Party has recently become radically anti-science, and the fact that it has a majority in Congress does not bode well for the future of the US as a scientific power.
Tevatron, the world's most successful particle accelerator, was shut down for the last time on Friday. It played an important role in the race to find the elusive Higgs boson, also known as the "God particle", and was operated by the National Fermi Accelerator Laboratory.
"We think of it as disconnecting the animal devices from a beloved boiler," says Roger Dixon, head of the accelerator division at Primilab.
The pair of atomic streams have been operating in place since 1985. "This will be the end," said Giorgio Bernardi, a physicist at Paralab. "After that we will go and celebrate." Concluded.
The decision to shut down the accelerator ended the fruit-bearing era in which scientists used the Tevatron to discover the source of mass. They were also able to observe particles that could explain the nature of the entire universe.
A Tevatron sent protons and antiprotons down a 6-kilometer circular tunnel at the speed of light before colliding them to release hidden particles that make up matter. Tevatron discovered three of the 17 particles that scientists believe are fundamental in the universe. The big success was in 1995 when Arscher discovered a subatomic particle known as a top quark, the last of the six subatomic building blocks of matter that were discovered.
During the time, the scientists published over a thousand articles, and over a thousand doctoral theses with the participation of scientists from 40 countries. It still remains to decipher the accumulated data, something that will keep the scientists busy for at least another year.
Now the scientists at Tevatron will be forced to join CERN and look for the elusive particle there.
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Avi,
Obama himself turned off the faucet to the ORION project. He created a situation where it is more likely to expect China to reach the moon before the US gets there again. And Mars was further away from us in 20 years than was commonly thought. Even if somehow the Republicans were responsible for closing the accelerator (complete nonsense by the way), I see the cancellation of ORION as a much more serious injury to science, because the Tevatron has already reached its full capacity and no more vital information can be extracted from it.
Father, you really don't understand much
and in American politics
There is no difference
Apart from rhetoric
between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party
Because both are funded by the same people.
Fox is a commercial television network
with a conservative political agenda
controlled by capitalists
It's natural for her to want to pretend there are differences
And give more of a platform to those who, apparently, identify with her positions.
I don't know where you get my political views from. Mine as to secularism. This is as far as I know legal in the State of Israel. At least for now. And besides, if you watch the confrontations on the Fox network, you'll understand for yourself what I'm talking about.
And besides that she admitted that the attack against science originates from religious factors. And apart from that, the site's credibility stems from adhering to the policies of Science and Nature. If you have claims about bias - go to their editors.
It's a shame you're trying to prove that science is a political matter. If you stop mixing your leftist and secular opinions with pure science it would give more credibility to the site.
The deficit in the US is in the order of thousands of billions of dollars and therefore every party in power would look for where they could save. Scientific projects can be very expensive and it is only natural (unfortunately) that there they try to save.
More or less, this would have happened even if the Democrats were in power.
Happy New Year
Sabdarmish Yehuda
Father, you have no idea about American politics, you are embarrassing yourself.
The fact that you have heard some Republicans speak against evolution (Scoop - there are some among the Democrats as well) does not make the party anti-scientific.
It gives the impression that you really do not have a basic understanding of the subject and you feed on shallow articles from tabloids like YNET that are written by seventh-grade journalists who themselves feed on translations from news agencies that themselves have an interest.
After all, the Republicans hold Congress and without it there is no budget. For example, the Democrats can decide to build a high-speed train between San Francisco and Los Angeles, but the Republicans, who see every investment as an expense, do not allow the project to be budgeted to continue getting from place to place in airplanes or fuel-guzzling cars, and this is just one example.
Can someone explain what the first paragraph has to do with the rest of the article? The Republicans are not in power at all...it's probably not their decision. And what do you say about the fact that Obama cut the NASA budget and canceled the ORION project?