A couple million dollars doesnt go very far in the particle accelerator world.
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That was my first thought, reading this.
A million here and a million there and you’re still not going to have enough to buy dinners for all the physicists on the project.
“A couple million dollars doesnt go very far in the particle accelerator world.”
A look at the link another poster (or was it you) provided, they got parts from their “scrap pile”, which is probably worth billions.