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Nobu, I concur with your concern about the unfortunate tone of this article. I hope that it does not represent anything other than the opinion of the (somewhat misguided) author. The ILC is about doing science in an international collaboration. It is not a mechanism for one region to attain dominance in particle physics. But you would not know this from the article. I am sorry that it was written with such a nationalistic tone. Gerry On Aug 9, 2006, at 6:41 AM, N.Toge wrote: > Dear Norman, > >> Popular Science Magazine has an article on the ILC >> titled "Can This Machine Rescue Physics?". Read it >> at: > > Thank you for circulating a pointer to the article above. > > I have read with it great curiosity. > > I have to say, however, that I am thoroughly disappointed by > this article. > > The article certainly introduces ILC as our foremost, > greatest adventure of physics research in the 21st century. > However, it completely stops short of explaining the context > of this keyword "International", in the sense that it > totally fails to refer to the international efforts and > collaboration including those from European and Asian nations. > > Consequently, this article makes it sound like US HEP needs this > "International" LC for its (US HEP) own survival, yet it > (US HEP) is utterly indifferent of what the rest of the world > would do or would not do in such circumstances. The way Norman > Augustine is quoted is making him sound like US does not want > to work with the rest of the world unless it being THE leader. > IMNSHO, this is a very efficient way for ILC for US to start > falling into the pattern of SSC. > > I dearly hope that the colleagues in US HEP actually do > not feel the way outlined in this article, and take adequate > and decisive actions to make the tone of "our push towards ILC" > into internationally, politically and gobally a more correct > one. > > Sincerely, > > - Nobu Toge (KEK, Accelerator Lab) > email: [log in to unmask] > voice: +81-29-864-5224 > fax: +81-29-864-3182 > ______________________________ Gerald Dugan Newman Lab Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14850 Office phone: 607-255-5744 Mobile phone: 607-227-9683 Fax: 607-254-4552 [log in to unmask] _________________________________