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That isn't relevant. CERN isn't a US government project and the US doesn't provide funding. The cumulative budgets of the EDA member states €223 billion in 2018
by 9OzUIvDwF4LvfUM 6y ago
That isn't relevant. CERN isn't a US government project and the US doesn't provide funding. The cumulative budgets of the EDA member states €223 billion in 2018[1].
[1] https://www.eda.europa.eu/docs/default-source/brochures/eda-defence-data-2017-2018 https://www.eda.europa.eu/docs/default-source/brochures/eda-...
- adventured 6y ago> CERN isn't a US government project and the US doesn't provide funding. That's news to US taxpayers, which have provided money to CERN projects for decades, including LHC. Half a billion dollars for LHC was considered a lot of money back in 1997 (when US GDP was ~37% the size it was in 2019). 2008: "On Monday, the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation announced that the United States has completed - on budget and ahead of the September 30, 2008 milestone - its contribution to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Under its agreement with CERN, the U.S. contributed $531 million of accelerator components and particle detectors for the LHC." https://www.aip.org/fyi/2008/us-contribution-lhc-budget-and-ahead-schedule https://www.aip.org/fyi/2008/us-contribution-lhc-budget-and-...
- dukwon 6y agoThe US's contributions to CERN are equipment and services rather than money, but indeed they are a big contributor. They are certainly the largest participating country in the LHC by number of scientists.
- 9OzUIvDwF4LvfUM 6y agoThe US isn't on here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN#Member_states_and_budget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN#Member_states_and_budget
- nix23 6y agoCern is European, the counterpart in the US are fermilab, they are highly knitted together.