> It's hard to imagine a worse place to try doing military research. You are right of course. I don't mean overt military research. They can develop all kinds

> It's hard to imagine a worse place to try doing military research. You are right of course. I don't mean overt military research. They can develop all kinds of high vacuum and laser technologies to search for elusive particles then it's trivial to turn that research into laser guns. But this is a guess. To me, you need to suspend disbelief to believe that a government, any government, will spend money to add few more particles to the Standard Model unless there is something in it for themselves. This is only a guess. I might be wrong.