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> While I do agree that you should be able to do experiments for experiment's sake, and to just "see what happens" so to speak, projects like the LHC and the fu
by kerkeslager 9y ago
> While I do agree that you should be able to do experiments for experiment's sake, and to just "see what happens" so to speak, projects like the LHC and the fusion reactor projects are all multi-billion projects; that's a lot of money to be spending on something where people don't know what to expect.
On the contrary, not knowing what to expect is exactly why you should spend money on it. If you know what to expect, there's no reason to spend billions of dollars testing what you already know.
- neolefty 9y agoI think the author's argument is that we pretty much know what to expect--a negative result--and all the people arguing otherwise can't give good reasons beyond "I want my funding to continue".