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“The new device, based on the traditional black-and-white X-ray, incorporates particle-tracking technology developed for CERN's Large Hadron Collider.” Now i h
by sloka 8y ago
“The new device, based on the traditional black-and-white X-ray, incorporates particle-tracking technology developed for CERN's Large Hadron Collider.”
Now i have an easy to understand example to make my skeptical friends understand how CERN’s research benefits us in myriad ways.
- Florin_Andrei 8y agoFundamental science research always has applications decades in the future. It's pretty rare that practical applications are found "now".
- s0rce 8y agoFamously Hertz claimed there would be no application of radio waves.
- zokier 8y agoThere is a distinction to be made on the results of the fundamental research itself, and then the sideproducts of the engineering that enables that research. From the sounds of it, this Xray thingy belongs more in the latter category.
- Create 8y agoYour problem will be, that it is very easy to argue for somebody knowledgeable in the field, that this can be done completely without CERN’s research. Actually, similar stuff has already been done.
- perl4ever 8y agoThere's also the whole World Wide Web thing...
- Create 8y agoAre you referring to the stripped down SGML, RPC or hyperlinks? Or the combination? Because all three have been around much before. In many flavours and mixes. The WWW variant’s adoption had more to do with politics than scientific/technical merit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSyfZkVgasI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSyfZkVgasI https://archive.org/details/paulotlet https://archive.org/details/paulotlet or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLX2OGw31Oo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLX2OGw31Oo