"There's absolutely no guarantee," Weinberg told Science. But it’s all a little hazy, a high-energy Brigadoon. The CERN scientists appear to have found the Higgs and are promising more to come (Higgs 2, 3, etc., supersymmetric particles, you name it). needed to catch up with the latest generation of Soviet multiple independent targetable reentry-vehicle technology to avoid global thermonuclear annihilation. Left out of that was the reality that Large Hadron Collider did not cost as much and what was the rush, really? It wasn’t as if the U.S. “It would have been completed a decade earlier, and since it had three times the energy things would have gone faster.” “The SSC had a big head-start on the CERN machine,” Steven Weinberg, the Nobelist in physics and one-time SSC proponent, informed the Texas Tribune. could have reasserted global hegemony if only the country had gone ahead with the Superconducting Super Collider, scrapped by Congress in 1993 because of an enormous $11-billion-plus price tag. The Higgs announcement was a case in point, an opportunity for Sputnik-era scientists to lament how the U.S. 2 is not an option, mon-have not vanished entirely. and the Soviets to puff their geopolitical pecs. Viewing science as a battle of the gladiators goes back, of course, to the cold war obsession with the physical sciences as a means for the U.S. A chapter on American science and globalization sums it up with this essential nugget: “Loss of dominance … is not the same thing as decline.”
But its sci-techno empire has yet to shrivel into irrelevance. Not a surprise, nor a threat.Īfter a 90-year run as unparalleled world leader, the U.S. One example: growth rates for new scientific publications are generally growing faster outside the U.S. The scientific enterprise has, of course, become global. science is no longer the only game in town. retains its position as “the continuing, unchallenged world leader in science, technology and innovation.” At the same time, they recognize that things are in a state of flux and that U.S. 85 percent of the world’s top 20 universities and 54 percent of the world’s top 100 universities 63 percent of the world’s highly cited scientific publications 45 percent of the world’s Nobel Prize winners in physics, chemistry, and physiology or medicine through 2009 38 percent of patented new technology among industrial countries 40 percent of total research and development spending
stands on the world scene in science and technology: Just a few vital statistics from the book on where the U.S. American science is in pretty good shape, even if it isn’t the overpumped beast that it once was. After milling through massive data sets, the researchers find that the alarmists are basically Chicken Littles. The sociologist authors-Yu Xie of the University of Michigan and Alexandra Killewald of HarvardUniversity-stick assiduously to the facts without advancing any preconceived political agenda. Is there anything wrong with this picture? Are we really losing it, or is this, to liberally paraphrase historian Richard Hofstader, an example of the paranoid style in American science policy? A book that appeared last month - Is American Science in Decline?-takes a stab at answering this question. Next, Japan in the 1980s and, in more recent years, the menace of the new Asian behemoths and now European physics wizards. When one threat abates, the next one emerges: First, Sputnik and the Soviets. The idea that America is losing its mojo as the world’s leading scientific and technical powerhouse has recurred ceaselessly since World War II. The story goes on to quote an American physicist who works at CERN as saying the nation has given up on pushing the boundaries of science.
The Bloomberg News story declared that the home of Galileo and Newton has recaptured the lead in physics with its pursuit of the Higgs boson, a place in the scientific firmament that was once indisputably owned by the birthplace of Benjamin Franklin. in Physics Pursuing God Particle,” the headline blared.
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