Monday, June 18, 2007
The US isn't Ready for the Next Big Thing
Inability to meet "grand challenges" of physics likely to hurt US competitiveness
: "Although the US has dominated the field during the 20th century, a number of reasons are listed to suggest that it is poorly positioned to continue at this pace. As someone who has followed the funding situation in biology carefully, the problems facing physics appear to be essentially identical."
It comes down to this. Our children don't have the education to solve these hard problems. They are too busy getting schooled.
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