In the context of the FY27 PBR it helps to go back to Robert Wilson’s famous testimony to Congress about funding for the NAL(Fermilab) in FY1970 and ask the natural question, why are there some people so hell-bent on tearing down so much of what makes this country worth defending?⚛️🧪
Okay, NSF is for some reason under an appendix, but they do have directorate-level numbers. Cuts pretty much across the board, including zeroing out SBE? which I suppose is what would happen with a 54% cut. Also worth looking at those FY26 estimates...
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Fortunately they’ll have these to get around in whatever it’s called😉 bsky.app/profile/cern...
It will never be the best public transit system, but there’s definitely a special unmatched quality the DC metro will always have
More coverage of the move in Science. I had not realized the programs were managed (though had separate accounts) prior to 2003.
If well managed this amplifies the science and makes sure people focus on the interesting questions and technologies. If poorly managed
this guts both programs. Fingers crossed for good management, there are interesting times ahead!
Yeah sep of NP/HEP is arbitrary it’s the same SM. I don’t think you can get more than FCCee for EWPT but nuclear always can ask at lower Q^2 like MOLLER catching up with LEP. PDFs it’s more helpful for LHC sys, for FCChh you gain a lot more with muC PDF measurements. Hopefully can all work together!
Detectors of course will be synergistic. An interesting question for the future will be if both accelerator sides want muon beams. Muon collider for HEP, muIC for the next step after EIC. There are also other synergies eg being able to redo the entire JLAB program with neutrinos from muon beams
Turner, on the EPP report: It's going to stay fresh for 40 years. If there are bumps in the road for the first few years, we still have time to implement the vision.
Poignant and funny moment from CN Yang memorial, was Marilyn Simons recalling her and Jim’s friendship with him and still having the old dictionary the YITP gave Jim for the talks that started the connection of Physics/Math through YM theory(bc Jim was a bad speller😅) 🧪⚛️ @simonsfoundation.org
Incredible news of CN Yang’s lasting impact, thanks to Drs. Zhang and Luo for their generous gift that helps the Yang Institute for Theoretical physics carry on his legacy into the future @stonybrooku.bsky.social ⚛️🧪
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Interesting Yang anecdotes, he often is remembered for opposing Chinese particle colliders, but he actually wanted his institute to go into accelerator physics. Physics is an experimental science and the machines are becoming too big and so he thought it was imperative to come up with smarter ways⚛️🧪
George Sterman beginning the scientific/personal part of the symposium honoring CN Yang’s contributions to Stony Brook university and beyond ⚛️🧪
Any other LEP experiments going this way? Could really use some DELPHI help…
Job alert: Data preservation for ALEPH data. I worked on ALEPH as a student, and as a junior faculty member analyzed archived ALEPH data to search for the Higgs.
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Gotta say @f1tv.bsky.social is a lot more interesting this year so far!
Such a cool way to show people the “invisible” microscopic world whizzing around them! ⚛️🧪
The ultimate area denial weapon against parents now has a stealth mode 😒🤬
Morning commute snow in NYC feels like adding insult to injury right after a historic blizzard
Trying to plan R&D for long term scientific projects in the current funding environment ⚛️🧪
These cuts to physics research will be a disaster for UK scientists – and for our standing in the world
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So just to clarify is this just rejecting the additional EU funding outside of the normal CERN contribution or something else?
You definitely want to learn to stop saying, "I am SO OLD!" long before the people to whom you're saying it just look at you in response with expressions that say, "I mean...yes."
I wonder if that will make CERN council pushback more and be less of a rubber stamp than with the prior DG?🧐
It’s an interesting lesson for today when we’ve become accustomed to developing one mega project at a time. Takes decades of development, but running experiments can easily erode the scientific case. So you have to balance ambition and flexibility, but the later is anathema to project management.
This seems especially short sighted by the UK after just having a Brit start as the CERN DG www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Latest batch of the Epstein files has plenty more physicists. Going through them slowly, in no particular order.
Yep completely agree with the sentiment about time scales. We're just in a difficult period historically since we need more collective effort/funding to push in some directions where we know what we'd like to look at and what we need, but r&d is always the first thing to get cut to support projects
The article is good but not sure it’s hard to know what to think about or look for, just hard to look resource wise/technologically🧐
I'll go with hard. The existential questions about our universe and EWSB have only become sharper since the LHC, the problem is that only collider experiments are relevant for them generically. If the world were less myopic now we'd invest more in R&D, but accelerator breakthroughs take time/suport🧪
