U.S. abandons hunt for signal of cosmic inflation

Re:U.S. abandons hunt for signal of cosmic inflation by echelon on Friday July 11, 2025 @01:15PM (#44534715)

Can this be expressed on a graph?

Can we see expenditures, big equipment contributions, Nobel prizes, etc. on a graph?

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Re:U.S. abandons hunt for signal of cosmic inflation by itishappy on Friday July 11, 2025 @01:24PM (#44534814)

Expenditures:

https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsb20246/cross-national-compariso...

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Re:U.S. abandons hunt for signal of cosmic inflation by echelon on Friday July 11, 2025 @01:27PM (#44534846)

Practically neck and neck! Wow.

I bet the graph of this over time would present a powerful story.

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Re:U.S. abandons hunt for signal of cosmic inflation by itishappy on Friday July 11, 2025 @01:28PM (#44534866)

I updated the link, scroll down!

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Re:U.S. abandons hunt for signal of cosmic inflation by echelon on Friday July 11, 2025 @01:35PM (#44534936)

Thank you for sharing this!

This is a really interesting story. It's not the US pulling back so much as it is China's rapid and incredible growth. According to this graph, the only period of US scientific expenditure stagnation was during the 2008 housing crisis. Our expenditures over the last decade have been increasing at a pretty good growth rate too.

The data points for the forthcoming years will be interesting (sad) to see after all of these cuts.

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Re:U.S. abandons hunt for signal of cosmic inflation by potamic on Sunday July 13, 2025 @03:54AM (#44548387)

Is there a glitch in sorting? Why is EU at #2?

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