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The LHC was planned 25 years before it was a reality. In fact, one of the first pictures put on the WWW when it was created at CERN was a schematic of the LHC:
by 21 10y ago
The LHC was planned 25 years before it was a reality. In fact, one of the first pictures put on the WWW when it was created at CERN was a schematic of the LHC:
https://home.cern/sites/home.web.cern.ch/files/image/update-for_the_public/2013/04/screensnap2_24c.jpg https://home.cern/sites/home.web.cern.ch/files/image/update-...
- delecti 10y agoThe LHC wasn't a scientific milestone, it was an engineering one. Using the LHC has led to milestones.
- 21 10y agoBut this article also talks about an engineering milestone, there is no scientific milestone in going from a 6 qubit computer or a 49 qubit one.
- mr_overalls 10y agoIn many fields, for the past several decades, scientific progress has been inextricably bound with technical progress. New tools yield new experiments/discoveries.