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I expect that it will help gain a deeper understanding of physics which in turn will enable the development of new technologies. These new technologies could in
by this_was_posted 7y ago
I expect that it will help gain a deeper understanding of physics which in turn will enable the development of new technologies. These new technologies could in turn help us greatly in facing our biggest challenges.
- gridlockd 7y agoCan you be more specific?
- demurgos 7y agoSome engineer at CERN wanted to easily share documents with its colleagues and came up with the World Wide Web. It's not a direct result of CERN, but a byproduct. They have special requirements for cooling, data processing, engineering, etc. It helps to push for improvements in these fields.
- gridlockd 7y agoThat's not convincing at all. If HTML/HTTP hadn't been invented then and there, something similar - perhaps better - would've caught on instead. After all, there was a plethora of internet services early on, the web just happened to eat most of them.
- dwaltrip 7y agoApplications of CERN technologies in society: https://kt.cern/cern-technologies-society https://kt.cern/cern-technologies-society
- gridlockd 7y agoThank you. I can see that medical imaging technologies in particular would show up as side-effects to what CERN is doing. That may not have happened otherwise. Perhaps I'm undervaluing the merits of taking a shower to solve a problem unrelated to cleaning my body, metaphorically speaking.
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