> are there any potential applications for this knowledge at an earthly scale? in broad terms, it's unlikely that any new physics has applications at an earthl

> are there any potential applications for this knowledge at an earthly scale? in broad terms, it's unlikely that any new physics has applications at an earthly scale. the argument is quite simple - if there are significant differences between whatever is "new" and what we currently know at the kinds of scales that are appropriate for applications then it would be easy to do the experiments. the very fact that physics is reduced to using astronomy or the lhc to explore extreme conditions indicates that anything new applies only at scales that are largely irrelevant to us here and now.