Is Europe the centre of physics? We look at the Large Hadron Collider

If particle physics is your thing, then the Large Hadron Collider represents a huge victory for Europe as well as particle physics.

There seemed to be many years ago, a brain drain between Europe and the U.S. with the obvious Albert Einstein in the 1930’s and the Wehrner von Braun in the 1940s this carried on through to the 1990s.
But if we look to the present day, there is no doubt that Europe, in the centre of the science world, especially CERN. With the Europeans taking the lead in building the LHC, throwing in $6 billion, but according to MSNBC the U.S. only contributed just over $500 million.

France is home to the ITER fusion research centre, and also could be to another fusion project the HiPER laser-fusion facility. However, in Washington, politicians decreased their physics research by $94 million, although some funding has been restored, a lot of positions were lost.

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