[naasking]

I was just thinking that laser-driven plasma wakefield accelerators have produced some promising results recently. Particle physicists still seem stuck in the big accelerator mentality when maybe there are better uses for that money, even in their own field.

[bettysdiagnose]

I would say that 8km is actually quite small, and besides, LPWA has its own problems.

[naasking]

Of course it has its own problems, the question is whether a novel approach is likely to yield more novel insights than the standard approach for the past 50 years. Answer seems kind of obvious.