Re: Discovery of the Higgs Boson
I understand you have read and quoted an article. Allow me to put some things in perspective. I’d like to add that a century or two ago, the discovery of the neuron was monumental, but irrelavant to the masses. You would have said then, that we found a neuron, so what. It’s a waste of our king’s golds and riches. We knew these things existed, but didn’t know what to do with it.
The thing with the research at Cern and the collider is that you just cannot see this as a short term expense of any sort. What’s happening there is a constant creation of knowledge for the better of humanity. Our sciences are based on assumptions of how things work. The only way we can proceed is by verifying these assumptions and building upon it.
After all, the X-ray was also “discovered” out of experimentation of this sort. Who knows what we can do in the next 20-50 years with this new knowledge. I for one, am excited, although we must remain patient, and continue to fund science