" The biggest machines, in those days, were already pushing the limits of what could be constructed on Arbre with reasonable amounts of money." " I hadn't known that," I said. " I always tend to assume there's an infinite amount of money out there." " There might as well be," Arsibalt said, " but most of it gets spent on pornography, sugar water, and bombs. There is only so much that can be scraped together for particle accelerators. "