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>I for one would like to see a greater portion of funding going towards experimental physics. What do you imagine the current portion is? Most funding does go

• lutusp 12y ago
  True. If you count heads, there seems to be an equal number of theoretical and experimental physicists. But if you tally budgets and compare the cost of an accelerator versus the cost of a blackboard, experimental physics has a much higher cost.
  • mtdewcmu 12y ago
    Perhaps we should pitch in a little more so that the experimental physicists can also have blackboards.