The large hardon collider. >cost 7 billion from 14 different

Why don't we take 1 billion from every country and build a fuckhuge fuckpowerful collider around the circumference of the earth that collides particles at joules of energy?

>>7645148
>resulted in nothing useful for humanity
Completely wrong. Even if you consider high energy physics experiments useless, only the construction and development of the LHC provided us a lot of new technology.

>>7645168
Genuinely curious, what new technologies came from it?

>>7645176
Well CERN did invent the web...

>>7645185
I mean the LHC specifically.

>>7645185
>implying it wasn't Al Gore

>>7645148
>>even the theories that have been written because of it hold no practical value for anyone
What are ya, some kinda fooken oracle?

>>7645210
ily anon, be my friend

>>7645148
If you're asking yourself why do we need science that doesn't yield practical applications, you'll probably never understand the answer.

>>7645176
The Web.
Distributed computing technologies.
Big data (literally -- ROOT was the precursor of all the corporate bullshit we see today).
Medical stuff (micro-accelerators for isotope production, hadron therapy, etc).
Military stuff (ultra-fast detectors is something missile makers such as Thales or BAE were rather interested into).
Tons of patents on optoelectronics, superconductivity techniques, hard vacuum techniques, high-power electronics or anything you'd need to enable the mind-boggling complex experiments at CERN.

But as >>7645222 said, it's not even why we do it.

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>>7645194
Solid reference, buddy

The construction of the LHC provides a lot of breakthrough engineering designs and techniques. This is how we spot popsci fags. They want to know the consumer application not hte science. A lot of breakthrough research has been made at the LHC. The military research alone has skyrocketed military R&D. Remember science is fucking slow, so the benefits won't be shown for decades. Einstein GR theory went on to be a central part of GPS. Look how fucking common GPS is nowadays. Pure science research is playing the long game, which is China MO by the way. This is why they want their own LHC.

>>7645264
op wore down his fleshlight & thinks it's a hardon collider

>>7645148
>hardon

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>>7645264

>FUCKING BRUTAL
>FUCKING SAVAGE
>FUCKING REKT

>>7645148

>>7645148
>nothing useful for humanity
>because I know what's useful
Mister Trump pls go

>>7645148
>Resulted in nothing useful for humanity
Correction, nothing useful for you. The science community has benefited enormously from the LHC. We've been able to put together a more accurate picture of the quantum universe. Currently, the LHC is doing tests to find fluctuations in quantum gravity, which could provide a better picture of the expansion period after the Big Bang. If we know the physics that happened during this time, it could lead to all kinds of things you would consider a benefit. If we had a working knowledge of how gravity waves are formed and how they propagate, we could find ways to manipulate or even create them, which could actually produce all the popsci bullshit you want.

tl;dr Don't rush art