From Sarah Jones
I was absolutely disgusted to read about the cuts in funding for physics projects in the UK and the US (19 January, p 5 and p 8). An £80 million cut for British physics is, frankly, ridiculous, and it only adds insult to injury that it comes after increases in funding had been proposed.
I will start a degree in physics this September, with hopes to make my name as a particle physicist, and am greatly concerned that physics, like science in general, is not being given the respect that such a fundamental subject deserves. I am disappointed by the general lack of regard for science shown by those with the authority to make a real difference, and by the media, who are happy to suggest that human-animal hybrids could create a species of sub-human slaves while failing to mention the diseases that could be cured by this alternative to fetal stem cell research.
I have found a petition against the UK funding cuts at http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Physics-Funding/. If it doesn’t succeed, I shall have to be comforted by the hope that in a parallel universe the funding was increased.
Bristol, UK
