>>>The U.S. has contributed $531 million to the construction of the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle collider, located in Europe. From the LHC Remote Operations Center at Fermilab, U.S. scientists will participate in the startup of the machine.
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>>>And FermiLab's Tevatron?
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>>Isn't the tevatron a much smaller machine. the long term prospects are for the more powerful LHC to produce greater results though in the short term the tevatron may find indications of the Higgs Boson (here endeth my knowledge of particle physics) .
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>Yes, I'm just surprised sometimes that for a country going broke, it sure spends a lot of money...

Well you don't like pork spending and this isn't. by spending the money the US gets a foot in the door on results and I'm sure there will be more than a few US scientists over there.