Re:Can Foundational Physics Be Saved?
by PopePompus on Sunday December 16, 2018 @02:44AM
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Sounds good, as long as the public isn't expected to cough up the funds for their research. Otherwise, don't blame the public for wondering if the LHC was worth the cost.
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Re:Can Foundational Physics Be Saved?
by JoshCalbet on Sunday December 16, 2018 @04:22AM
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"Their research" is the one that keeps pushing technology forwards, the technology that you are using in this moment
What technology came from the LHC? Or string theory for that matter?
https://kt.cern/technologies
https://kt.cern/cern-technologies-society
If you want to include past contributions, that WWW thing is kind of neat...
Except it had nothing to do with physics and was not a research project, just yet another hypertext system.
Tim Berners-Lee developed HTTP (and the underlying idea of "hypertext" made of interlinked documents) to support scientific collaboration at CERN.
I'm not aware of any technological advances produced by the measurements at the LHC, but it has been running for barely 10 years. On the other hand, building the thing probably required significant innovations in magnets and sensors.