How would have you invested the money differently? Double the budget of the US military for one year? One thing that struck me when I visited the CERN in Switz

How would have you invested the money differently? Double the budget of the US military for one year? One thing that struck me when I visited the CERN in Switzerland is actually how much of the money spent on fundamental research spilled over into the "real economy" through the byproduct of all the interesting technologies invented.