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What are the real benefits to society of The Large Hadron Collider ?
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It's keeping a lot of scientists quiet and underground, which prevents them from inventing new weapons.
It creates a lot of gags for the big bang theory.
It demonstrates how the universe functions and leads us to a better understanding of our history and more chance of surviving our future.
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Physicists hope that the LHC will help answer some of the fundamental open questions in physics, concerning the basic laws governing the interactions and forces among the elementary objects, the deep structure of space and time, and in particular the interrelation between quantum mechanics and general relativity, where current theories and knowledge are unclear or break down altogether. Data are also needed from high energy particle experiments to suggest which versions of current scientific models are more likely to be correct – in particular to choose between the Standard Model and Higgsless models and to validate their predictions and allow further theoretical development. Many theorists expect new physics beyond the Standard Model to emerge at the TeV energy level, as the Standard Model appears to be unsatisfactory. |
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It's also rumoured that the LHC will finally be able to answer that age-old question, and that is, if you tape a buttered piece of toast to a cats back with the butter upwards, and then drop the cat from a height, will the cat still land on it's paws?  |
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"Physicists hope that the LHC will help answer some of the fundamental open questions in physics, concerning the basic laws governing the interactions and forces among the elementary objects, the deep structure of space and time, and in particular the interrelation between quantum mechanics and general relativity, where current theories and knowledge are unclear or break down altogether. Data are also needed from high energy particle experiments to suggest which versions of current scientific models are more likely to be correct – in particular to choose between the Standard Model and Higgsless models and to validate their predictions and allow further theoretical development. Many theorists expect new physics beyond the Standard Model to emerge at the TeV energy level, as the Standard Model appears to be unsatisfactory."
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"I am familiar of the reasons behind The Large Hadron Collider. I was thinking more in terms of the actual benefits to society as opposed to the theoretical ones "
People asked exactly the same question about motor cars, aeroplanes, televisions, computers, emancipation, human rights and quite a lot of things that we now couldn't live without..!
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"I am familiar of the reasons behind The Large Hadron Collider. I was thinking more in terms of the actual benefits to society as opposed to the theoretical ones
People asked exactly the same question about motor cars, aeroplanes, televisions, computers, emancipation, human rights and quite a lot of things that we now couldn't live without..!
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"Physicists hope that the LHC will help answer some of the fundamental open questions in physics, concerning the basic laws governing the interactions and forces among the elementary objects, the deep structure of space and time, and in particular the interrelation between quantum mechanics and general relativity, where current theories and knowledge are unclear or break down altogether. Data are also needed from high energy particle experiments to suggest which versions of current scientific models are more likely to be correct – in particular to choose between the Standard Model and Higgsless models and to validate their predictions and allow further theoretical development. Many theorists expect new physics beyond the Standard Model to emerge at the TeV energy level, as the Standard Model appears to be unsatisfactory."
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