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Have you considered some of the large, hard problems whose solutions also have immediate benefits?
by erikpukinskis 6y ago
Have you considered some of the large, hard problems whose solutions also have immediate benefits?
- ChrisLomont 6y agoYep - but that is not true for most high energy physics. The incredibly short lifetimes and low coupling of most new particles make them mostly unusable for anything we can forsee being useful. Electrons were useful, because they have long lifetimes, are easy to make, and interact well. Higgs bosons are unlikely to be useful as technology ever since they are so ephermeral. And they're certainly not giving immediate benefits.