CERN accepts $1B in private cash towards Future Circular Collider

What changeable vectors are there except to scale up the energy levels? Can particles be altered prior to collission with the existing system to observe interesting effects?

As someone who supports pure science research, I would be interested to understand if any of the discoveries of CERN (and related projects) in the last 50 years (say) have proved to have practical application.

(Specifically, "discoveries", not technology developed in support of the research)

“Eric Schmidt, who founded Google” no he didn’t

As a non physicist I like the idea of a moun collider more - more compact (thus should be cheaper) as well as something which haven't done in similar energy scales and therefore more likely to need new technology in building it and finding something new.

Maybe this one will finally make a black hole that ends it all

https://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/

it's already a black hole for funding

This should have a $1T budget not a B. We waste so much money on low efficiency computing infrastructure and energy that should be going to this.

These projects are extremely expensive and the findings can alter humanity itself. That's why private donors sounds a bit sketchy