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The obvious reply to this one is the secondary effects are worth it and not 'sapping intellectual potential'. i.e. CERN led to development of the web.
by Stevvo 6y ago
The obvious reply to this one is the secondary effects are worth it and not 'sapping intellectual potential'. i.e. CERN led to development of the web.
- dnautics 6y agoIt was the 70s. How many secondary effects have emerged from colliders in the last, say 20 years? I would say the biggest thing is generation of collimated X-rays for structural biology and materials science, but that was kind of late 90s.