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Re:Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard? by WarmWash on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @11:53AM (#46962765)
Takes like this are an optical illusion meant to create the idea that there is an insane amount of money freely floating around that is just being hoarded.

But just like that money is generated, it's also all spent.

So the actual hard part is deciding what not to spend money on so we can build some crazy physics machines with a blurry ROI instead.

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Re:Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard? by snowwrestler on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @06:29PM (#46968562)
It’s not an optical illusion, there is actually is a large amount of money available to do things. This is all public data, you can check it yourself.
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