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Re:Can Foundational Physics Be Saved? by xv1823 on Sunday December 16, 2018 @05:15AM (#18692488)
What technology came from the LHC? Or string theory for that matter?
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Re:Can Foundational Physics Be Saved? by cygx on Sunday December 16, 2018 @07:04AM (#18692756)
https://kt.cern/technologies

https://kt.cern/cern-technologies-society

If you want to include past contributions, that WWW thing is kind of neat...

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Re:Can Foundational Physics Be Saved? by T-A on Sunday December 16, 2018 @08:23AM (#18692947)
Except it had nothing to do with physics and was not a research project, just yet another hypertext system.
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Re:Can Foundational Physics Be Saved? by yorwba on Sunday December 16, 2018 @07:13AM (#18692771)
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.

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