{"id":1514,"date":"2007-12-11T16:26:53","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T21:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2007\/12\/11\/uk-physics-investment-decimated\/"},"modified":"2007-12-11T16:26:53","modified_gmt":"2007-12-11T21:26:53","slug":"uk-physics-investment-decimated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/11\/uk-physics-investment-decimated\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Physics Investment Decimated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewjaffe.net\/blog\/science\/000332.html\">Andrew Jaffe<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=628\">Not Even Wrong<\/a>, news that the <a href=\"http:\/\/physicsworld.com\/cws\/article\/news\/32163\">UK will be withdrawing a massive amount of investment in large physics projects<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A funding crisis at one of the UK&#8217;s leading research councils has forced the country to pull out of plans for the International Linear Collider (ILC). The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) says in a  report published today that it does not see &#8220;a practicable path towards the realization of this facility as currently conceived on a reasonable timescale&#8221;. The report also says that the UK will stop investing in high-energy gamma-ray astronomy, withdraw from the Gemini telescopes, and cease all support for ground-based solar-terrestrial physics facilities&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is one whole great big bombshell,&#8221; says particle physicist John Dainton from the Cockcroft Institute at Liverpool University in the UK, which is involved in planning the ILC. &#8220;How can administrators in government departments and the STFC get this so wrong? There must be a reason and incompetence comes to mind. We are furious. You are killing off the exploitation of years of investment.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewjaffe.net\/blog\/science\/000332.html\">Andrew<\/a> also notes that they will be:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;revisiting the on-going level of investment&#8221; in gravitational wave detection, dark matter detection, the Clover CMB experiment and the UKIRT telescope. The UK will pull out of the Isaac Newton Group of telescopes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Terrible news for particle physics, astrophysics, and solar physics.  The ILC is certainly on shaky ground; if countries start dropping out, the LHC might very well be the last particle accelerator at the energy frontier built in our lifetimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Andrew Jaffe and Not Even Wrong, news that the UK will be withdrawing a massive amount of investment in large physics projects. A funding crisis at one of the UK&#8217;s leading research councils has forced the country to pull out of plans for the International Linear Collider (ILC). The Science and Technology Facilities Council [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-politics","category-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}