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Re:Large Hadron Collider discovers three new exotic particles by pif on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @11:10AM (#32002146)
> Of course it has to be useful.

No, it hasn't. "Science" means "knowledge", and the only things you can know are the things how they actually are.

A PhD from CERN should not confuse science with engineering.

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Re:Large Hadron Collider discovers three new exotic particles by BrandoElFollito on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @12:16PM (#32003101)
> the only things you can know are the things how they actually are

Yes, but investing MM€ to know something that has no use does not make sense, if there is much more important knowledge competing for the fund. I guess that knowing how to cure MS is more important that discovering a four quarks particle, right? In an ideal world we could do everything but we have to choose wisely because the amount of funds is limited.

> A PhD from CERN should not confuse science with engineering.

Can you please tell me where I confused them?

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Re:Large Hadron Collider discovers three new exotic particles by dekhn on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @12:42PM (#32003461)
At cern, science is engineering is science
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