Going Out with a "Bang"

Although I loathed physics until finally being forced to acquiesce to their biological significance in graduate school, I have always viewed the physical science research some sort of reverence -- perhaps because it is so foreign to me; perhaps because, in exploring the vastness of space and the minutia of particle physics, it deals with the fundamental forces of the universe. 

Fermilab was an integral part of American scientific pioneering, for better and for worse.  I was saddened to read of the "passing" of the Tevatron -- something which puts Michigan State's work at the National Superconducting Laboratory (and FRIB) that much more on the forefront.  Still, I remain hopeful that projects like Project X (discussed in the closing paragraphs of the NPR article) will remain funding priorities in the United States, in times of want and in times of plenty.