Around the same time, I was checking out responses to a question that science-book agent John Brockman just posted Edge.org: “What should we be worried about? [6]” Brockman has been posing questions like this to his stable of professional eggheads, or Edgeheads, annually since 1998. Reading over responses to Brockman’s question, I was struck by how many Edgeheads are fretting over the future of particle physics in particular and pure science in general. Here are edited excerpts from Edge.org: ...