I am a British PhD student working at CERN on the LHC particle collider and am very concerned about the consideration of cuts to the UK science budget. Witnessing and working to understand fundamental nature of reality is impossible to attribute a value to. However, massive technological developments such as the world wide web were developed at CERN, and have contributed much more value than their funding cost. Don’t let the economy and technology of the future be marred by short term politics.