Orbach on Orbach
Science magazine has an interview with Ray Orbach today. The important points he makes are these:
The US is basically pulling out of ITER. As often happens at this time, he’s keeping the accountants going at the expense of real work:
‘What we’re going to do is to keep the ITER project office’ (at ORNL)
We won’t do any physics, but will keep the typing pool. Great.
To those of you working at FERMILAB, he said:
‘…we preserved the Tevatron run. And in order to do that, the B-factory had to be shut down early at SLAC‘
In other words, be thankful you’re in a slightly more Republican part of the country. We stuffed those hippies on the West coast to save you.
And to the ILC people, he had this to say:
‘ I think now the high-energy physics community understands how Congress feels…. You don’t have to convince me. You don’t have to convince the president. It’s there. Now we’re talking about the American people.’
He’s saying that ILC hasn’t sold itself enough to the American people. Which is true.
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