«While follow - on funding is a key short - term metric, the
other business - building milestones achieved by these companies are consistent with results
seen in
other North American
accelerators in the Global
Accelerator Network.
At that point, you've
seen what you're going to
see, and you have to start thinking about is there some
other way, some
other instrument; which might be a bigger
accelerator, it might be a more sensitive detector, it might be looking in, you know, some completely different region of — you know, for example, particle astrophysics didn't exist, you know, 10 or 15 years ago, but now it's one of the most active fields.