Comment by surgical_fire
Comment by surgical_fire 18 hours ago
Do you have evidence that "1000 smaller experiments" would give payoffs?
And how do you measure payoffs? With how much money you get in return? Should scientific research expect this?
Comment by surgical_fire 18 hours ago
Do you have evidence that "1000 smaller experiments" would give payoffs?
And how do you measure payoffs? With how much money you get in return? Should scientific research expect this?
Then the mystery is how the CERN "raised" those $1B. Maybe they have an amazing PR department? Or maybe the project is going to be such a huge success that they are acting from the future [1]?
Payoffs have many forms, the most important for pure research being "advancement of knowledge". We have nearly zero expectation of knowledge advancement from yet another radio frequency collider.