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I'm surprised it got through. $23B is a lot of money, and it will cost A LOT more when you start adding up the operational costs. In comparison, the space shutt
by crispyambulance 6y ago
I'm surprised it got through. $23B is a lot of money, and it will cost A LOT more when you start adding up the operational costs. In comparison, the space shuttle was $1.5B per launch "amortized" over 135 launches.
One of the effects of the Space Shuttle is that it hogged the budget of NASA (around 30%). Really worthwhile exploration and other space science programs got less funding because the Shuttle program was so big in cost.
Is the FCC going to do the same for Physics? There's an opportunity cost here that isn't getting addressed.
- cinntaile 6y agoIt didn't get through yet though, the CERN council approved of a feasibility study for this particular idea after considering and rejecting several other ideas. I don't really get what the FCC has to do with this?
- ajnin 6y agoFCC is the acronym for Future Circular Collider, the name of the proposed new accelerator.
- rubidium 6y agoThis is CERN. They approved a study into building one. They exist to study these things. Take away the toys and the institution has a hard time justifying itself. This is mostly self preservation. In my opinion we should give the Lhc a 25 year leash and then give the whole super-high energy colliders thing a rest. Put the funding into other research areas in physics; the reductionists have had their turn :)
- erk__ 6y agoYou should problably note that this collider is first planned to begin building around 30 years after the LHC was in put into operation. And it will probably take longer to build as well so put around 10 more years on that and you have 40 years after the LHC was put into operation.