The article is a nice example of why I'm conflicted about particle physics. Is it cool stuff? Absolutely. Is it relentlessly over-hyped? Dear God, yes.

[ I'm going to declare, purely by unsupportable fiat, that I get to have 3 gold stars per year for domain specific articles, which don't count against my (admittedly not well accounted for) 5 general stars per year. If you want, you can call them silver stars.

Having established my right to do so, I'm giving this blog post one of my newly minted silver stars. It succinctly captures so many of the feelings I've had towards particle physics in my life, but couldn't state quite so coherently.

Like other memed articles that i consider for star rating, i found myself wanting to clip almost every paragraph for the meme text. When that happens, I know it's a winner and instead use only a tiny clipping and star it or ramble on about how great it is (or both, as today).

Check it out. -k]

Uncertain Principles: Physics Funding Fundamentalism