I had noticed that the theoretical physics stories always seem to come from Europe or Japan, hell even India these days and wondered what was up with that. Frankly, I don’t care who discovers it, as long as we’re the first to develop practical uses for it (FTL FTW). Thanks for all the articles, Sunken.
That’s pertinent, because a bunch of the pure research in the US in the 1940s and 1950s resulted in technologies now used in products like portable music players, computers (obviously), video systems, gaming systems, etc — and employment in eastern and southern Asia.
One of the Seven Wonders of the world is the Superconducting Supercollider, as in I wonder where it went.