Where’s OUR Particle Accelerator?
Yesterday, the first particle beam was guided through the $8 billion Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva. In mid-October, the first particle beam collisions will be made, thus inaugurating the biggest, most expensive playground for particle physicists ever imagined. I’ve been trying to figure out what political science equivalent would match the LHC in scale. The most obvious example might be the commissioning of our very own laboratory-state in which political scientists schedule time to come in and basically mess with a state’s government to see what happens when we enact small institutional or social changes. Of course, without comparison, Continue reading Where’s OUR Particle Accelerator?