Comment: There will be more than enough work to do, if we're not short-sighted in how we prepare for it. There are more than enough problems to keep us busy, if we're not afraid solutions will disturb our personal dogmas. We cannot change the past, the only one sure thing we can determine is the future: ours, our country's and the world's.
The world may be in the midst of an economic downturn, yet that has not stopped scientists from planning a whole host of next-generation “big-science” facilities as well as governments pledging billions of euros to build them over the next 10–15 years.
From the ITER fusion experiment currently under construction in Cadarache, France, to the European Spallation Source in Lund, Sweden, the coming decade look to be a boon for researchers seeking new subatomic particles that exist for only a fraction of a second or studying events that occur on the femtosecond timescale.
Physics World: The Challenges of 'big science'; Big-Science Supplement
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