The World Doesn’t Need a New Gigantic Particle Collider

Re:The World Doesn’t Need a New Gigantic Particle Collider by jgeada on Sunday June 28, 2020 @04:46PM (#23671912)

I resent that comment; the way it typically goes engineers make something work and then an endless parade of scientist comes up with increasingly irrelevant explanations while engineers move on to the next challenge.

As the saying goes, thermodynamics owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to thermodynamics.

The cult of the scientist has gone too far in the US

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Re:The World Doesn’t Need a New Gigantic Particle Collider by bawana on Sunday June 28, 2020 @05:26PM (#23672193)

STRONGLY AGREE. We need to change education where kids get into building, doing, solving and making.Why cant we have a system that brings high school kids into hospitals, factories, research labs, as well as water treatment plants, electricity generating plants, construction sites, etc. As a result of COVID, a lot of work is done online. Why cant PR departments dumb down the content and include schools? Lots of interesting stuff is done on YouTube . Imagine if it were organized along these lines.

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Re:The World Doesn’t Need a New Gigantic Particle Collider by esperent on Monday June 29, 2020 @12:32AM (#23674371)

Better and more practical education for children sounds great. What exactly has that got to do with disliking spending money on science? There's no reason not to have both.

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