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... Consequently, the main body of the Physics Survey is presented in a series of reports prepared by panels of the Survey Committee one report on each major subfield of physics and one on scientific interfaces and technological applications. These seven reports, together with this Overview, collectively constitute the Physics Survey, Physics Through the 1990s.
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... In plasma and fluid physics, magnetically confined plasmas have been created at densities and temperatures that approach the conditions required to produce a fusion reaction in which nuclei merge with a release of energy. These conditions have also been approached using lasers, with which physicists have compressed pellets to many times their liquid density.
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... The resources required represent only a tiny fraction of the nation's total research and development expenditures. For our universities to maintain preeminence in physics and train graduate students at the highest level, the support for university-based research must be increased to ensure that it can compete at the forefront of physics.
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... SUPPORTING PHYSICS RESEARCH The support of basic research in physics and all the physical sciences, which is essential to ensure the future technical leadership of this country, is approximately 2.5 percent of the total research and development expenditures in the United States. The fraction spent on basic research is not large compared with the total research and development expenditures, and a healthy physics research enterprise is well within the nation's means.
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... Their re-emergence in the field of physics benefits science as a whole, but the United States can and must retain a competitive edge. Without it an essential factor in maintaining our economic well-being will be lost.
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