Have you ever looked at the very long list of beneficial discoveries that have come out of the space programme alone?
Stops you talking about the Cheese for half an hour? CERN is a farce of a thing to spend billions and billions on IMO. It's a ready made career for thousands of nerds...and the results will either be a) vague, b) irrelevant or c) too dull to even care about There's useful science...and there's who gives a **** science.
The space programme had obvious tangible benefits, as science was creating machinery and computer tehcnology in order to conquer a new frontier. This **** is just nerds firing atoms at each other to try and prove a theory that'll have **** all impact on any of our lives in any tangible fashion whatsoever.
The science going on is very complex. It wasn't developed just for the Higgs. They're looking at a whole range of other areas and the work could have massive potential for radically new stuff to come through development in areas such as materials science, computing and even interstellar travel.
I'll bow to your better knowledge mate, but to the casual observer it just looks like a load of beards ****ing about.
Maybe they will discover a magical way of removing hair from the face....they will name it..."Reticulated Antimatter Zero Oscillation Remover"....or "R.A.Z.O.R" for short
I'm no scientist, so I can't judge whether the Cern research is worthwhile or not, but I don't believe that pure theoretical science is a waste of time. Applied science often derives from it, and personally I'm fascinated with anything that might one day shed light on the origins and nature of the universe. A waste of money? Well perhaps, but no more wasteful than lobbing vast amounts at the egos of footballers, film "stars" and idiot so-called celebrities. And guns and bombs. And any other of the myriad ways in which our stupid species squanders it's assets. Oh, and Christmas.
The real scientific principle behind CERN is to smash tiny objects together hard enough to make sense of them It's like fordeckdave and astro in white lab coats smashing tobes and uirs heads together to knock some sense into them... A tough ask
Accepted view is consensus, consensus is not science, it is a vote. When John Harrison sussed Longitude, the Royal Society voted that he was wrong, for 30 f**ing years until the Royal Navy forced them to accept it The only solid thing that came from the experiments is that they know for sure they found a particle they never seen before, after that it's all down to interpretation But I was only looking for a bite anyways, and you were too f**ing tame
