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Re:Particle Physicists Continue to Make Empty Promises by will4274 on Friday October 23, 2020 @02:36PM (#24872442)
The insight that people care about outrage is not particularly novel. You yourself care about outrage - it's the reason you left the comment you left. If I care about outrage, on the other hand... What? I'm like you and most other people?
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Re:Particle Physicists Continue to Make Empty Promises by prof-dr-ir on Friday October 23, 2020 @04:11PM (#24873489)
.. then all you end up finding is conflict?

In a better forum the original proposal by the particle physics community would have reached the front page and then a version of this blog post could have been a valid comment.

Now it is the other way around and I think that is unfortunate. Why does it happen?

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Re:Particle Physicists Continue to Make Empty Promises by will4274 on Friday October 23, 2020 @05:19PM (#24874310)
Building particle accelerators is the status quo. I first looked up a list of upcoming accelerator projects on Wikipedia more than a decade ago. A proposal to continue the status quo is rarely novel. An argument against the status quo brings up new ideas.
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