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That's the same argument as weapon developers use, and weapon development contributed much more to fundamental physics than particle accelerators. The majority
by mD5pPxMcS6fVWKE 6y ago
That's the same argument as weapon developers use, and weapon development contributed much more to fundamental physics than particle accelerators. The majority of funds after the WWII flowed to physics thanks to the nuclear arms race.
- rowanG077 6y agoSo what's your point? The weapon developers are correct of course. But the difference between weapons and super colliders is that super colliders are designer to help humanity instead of destroy it.
- mD5pPxMcS6fVWKE 6y agoI can assure you weapon developers also think they benefit society. They usually say: WWIII did not happen only because of nuclear weapons. The question here is, what would benefit society more, spending said $21B on virology research or on a collider? Or maybe if you spend $21B on AI research, the computer will solve all the remaining theoretical problems of string theory in 0.21 s.
- rowanG077 6y agoOf course weapons benefit society. I didn't say they didn't...