UK halts unfinished gravitational-wave telescope project
APR 20, 2009
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.023262
Science : The United Kingdom has canceled a cosmology experiment that would have been Europe’s prime contender in the race to trace the gravitational waves that rippled through the infant universe. U.K. physicists complain that, to save less than £3 million, the nation’s cash-strapped Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) is abandoning a most promising field of inquiry. But the project--a suite of microwave telescopes called CLOVER--was 50% over budget and 3 years behind schedule, and scientists not associated with the project say they are not entirely surprised that STFC axed it
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