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Re:The Circular Electron Positron Collider by rubidium on Friday September 16, 2016 @09:51AM (#12513945)
Yang's point wasn't that there should be no large scale projects, just that they shouldn't do accelerators.

"Yang argues that high-energy physicists should eschew big accelerator projects for now and start blazing trails in new experimental and theoretical approaches."

Things like the IceCube project (https://icecube.wisc.edu/) come to mind as better (and cheaper) projects to pursue. They approach the particle physics questions from a different experimental viewpoint.

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Re:The Circular Electron Positron Collider by mattheww on Friday September 16, 2016 @11:01AM (#12514452)
Experiments like IceCube answer different questions than accelerator based experiments. You couldn't, for example, measure the Higgs branching ratio to bottom quarks at IceCube. On the other hand, you can't measure high-energy neutrinos at the LHC. Both types of experiments have their place.
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Re:The Circular Electron Positron Collider by rubidium on Friday September 16, 2016 @11:40AM (#12514747)
Totally hear you. But Yang's whole point was accelerator measurements are not what we should be focusing on for the next "x" new big experiments. I tend to agree.
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