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Devac · 1336 days ago · link · · parent · post: Physicist Pleads: Stop Building Stupid, Expensive Particle Colliders
LHC providing evidence of Higgs boson was just a lofty, primary mission. Everything else, with breakthroughs from photonics to material science, weren't intended or planned for when it was being designed, constructed or operated. Same goes to superpartners or nuclear-scale black holes: it's a lofty goal, but all the 'auxiliary' discoveries will be equally unpredictable in scope and worth. Hossenfelder, as a great scientist in her right, has my respect when it comes to wrangling lack of reproducibility or critisising some of the more arcane places in physics, but it's like she loses perspective when it comes to giving any money to particle physics research.