In LHC’s Shadow, America’s Collider Awakens

spiritplumber · on March 6, 2015

I wonder if this is "better" or "worse" than the SSC... Either way, great news.

Now if there could only be another space race :) Americans are at their best culturally when they're in a condition where they have to be in a fair competition.

batbomb · on March 7, 2015

it's different. SSC would have been much, much better than LHC.

Create · on March 7, 2015

That wouldn't be hard with the precarity at CERN, aka cheap disposable temp labour w/o healthcare.

http://www.tdg.ch/geneve/actu-genevoise/suisse-prete-aider-e...

Oletros · on March 7, 2015

That link doesn't say that the workers don't have healthcare

And I still don't understand the relation between some collider being better than another with the working conditions of some workers.

Create · on March 7, 2015

Un salaire suffisant et une couverture santé adéquate font souvent défaut.

In that sense, this new knowledge has all to do with honor and country but it has nothing to do directly with defending our country except to help make it worth defending.

Sweatshops are not worth defending.

raverbashing · on March 7, 2015

"Un salaire suffisant et une couverture santé adéquate"

Do you have the actual values?

While low I quite frankly doubt it's in "sweatshop" territory.

Create · on March 7, 2015

Around the SMIC for a fellow with higher degree (even less for project associates), and surely not enough to afford a family.

mark_edward · on March 7, 2015

If you can't see a relationship between the working conditions of the workers and the quality and tempo of the research produced, you must inhabit an entirely separate world.