Low Budget Science

My current forte is low budget filmmaking. I enjoy the thinking and creativity involved in making decisions with minimal cash flow.

However, this thinking can't be extrapolated to my past forte of science.

The Fiscal Year 2008 budget, as tabled, sees huge cuts to science in the US, especially high energy physics. It's effects could be catastrophic, and are already being felt:

-work on the ILC has stopped completely.

-the BaBar experiment will be shut down 6 months early.

-runs with colliding beams at RHIC (my old stomping ground) are being shortened from 30 weeks to 13 weeks.

-10% of employees at Fermilab will lose their jobs.

The list goes on and on. Jobs, knowledge, innovation and training are all on the line. You really should write to the government to stop this.