alt Hacker NewsThese projects are extremely expensive and the findings can alter humanity itself. That's why private donors sounds a bit sketchy
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murkt • today at 10:22 AM
How can they alter humanity? What's the difference for humanity since CERN found Higgs particle? In what ways could the potential dark matter particle detection alter humanity?
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T-A • today at 12:54 PM
> can alter humanity
or at least keep some of it warm:
https://home.cern/news/news/cern/heating-homes-worlds-larges...
waihtis • today at 11:12 AM
So complain to your government about their spending. Probably at least 30% of government spend is used on completely worthless or fraudulent things.
It's good that someone is funding this stuff.
> findings can alter humanity itself
Higgs boson was predicted in theory in 1964, and found in LHC in CERN in 2012-2013. With this, all elementary particles in the standard model of particle physics have been found.
From the 1970s to 2010s, physicists believed in a theory called supersymmetry, which predicted supersymmetric partner particles for the known elementary particles. But these should have been already found in the energies used in LHC.
For the first time, there is no mainstream theory that would predict any new findings. Maybe the next bigger particle collider will find no new particles at all?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlixMNBlQos