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Re:Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet? by pmjordan on Wednesday September 10, 2008 @12:08PM (#300482)
Particle physics tends to be pure research, but there's a chance that they might find something entirely unexpected that might bubble up into research into renewable energy or material science.
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Re:Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet? by mattmaroon on Wednesday September 10, 2008 @12:19PM (#300498)
Many areas of physics start out as pure research and are applied much later to life changing technologies.
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Re:Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet? by pmjordan on Wednesday September 10, 2008 @03:48PM (#300695)
One of the most famous examples of course being the photoelectric effect, which kinda went dead for many decades until it started being applied in digital cameras.
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Re:Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet? by michael_nielsen on Wednesday September 10, 2008 @06:49PM (#300831)
The photoelectric effect was an important step along the way to quantum mechanics, without which there'd be no transistor, and probably no personal computer, or Hacker News.
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Re:Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet? by cstejerean on Wednesday September 10, 2008 @07:41PM (#300870)
In case anyone else is wondering what transistors have to do with quantum mechanics

http://madsci.org/posts/archives/mar2000/952639215.Ph.r.html

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