As a (ex-)physicist, I don't particularly care where the experiments are taking place: cool science is being done, and the people at CERN are a pretty internati

As a (ex-)physicist, I don't particularly care where the experiments are taking place: cool science is being done, and the people at CERN are a pretty international bunch. They're also scattered around the world: I know a few people at the University of Michigan involved in the project, albeit mostly on the data analysis side of things. As an American... well, we've demonstrated that we don't plan to do any big particle physics locally anytime soon. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-09-30/news/ct-met-fermilab-tevatron-closing-20110930_1_fermilab-director-pier-oddone-tevatron-particle-physics http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-09-30/news/ct-met-fe... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_Super_Collider http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_Super_Collider sigh