里根政府热衷于大科学,制定了一系列耗资数十亿美元的大型计划。其中包括超导超级碰撞机(SSC)以及太空站计划。但去年国会未批准承担这些计划的全部费用,于是联邦预算面临削减,因此也就引起科学计划与其它耗费巨大的优先项目——例如治疗艾滋病的全国计划——之间的经费竞争。科学家们对此感到无可奈何。于是支持SSC计划的高能物理学家则对太空站计划加以攻 The Reagan administration is keen on big science and has devised a series of large-scale plans that cost billions of dollars. These include the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) and the space station program. Last year, however, Congress failed to approve the full cost of these plans, and the federal budget was cut, thereby creating a financial competition between science programs and other costly priorities, such as the national plan to fight AIDS. Scientists feel helpless. So high-energy physicists who support the SSC plan attack the space station plan