Perhaps the high expectations are the result of the huge amount of money that the LHC has cost several countries. Paying up such amounts for a device that might

Perhaps the high expectations are the result of the huge amount of money that the LHC has cost several countries. Paying up such amounts for a device that might discover something is pretty daft in most people's eyes. Of course the Physicists are happy to have all that dough to spend, but it came from taxpayers mostly.