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There are a lot of other areas of physics, some even involving the use of colliders, that are in better position and value to make discoveries that either advan
by beezle 4y ago
There are a lot of other areas of physics, some even involving the use of colliders, that are in better position and value to make discoveries that either advance our understanding and/or have applied/commercial application.
One example is the National Synchrotron Light Source II at Brookhaven. The money spent nationally and globally on these types of facilities are a fraction of what goes to LHC or, not long ago, the Tevatron at Fermilab.
- photochemsyn 4y agoYes, those kind of projects have a lot more uses and deserve more funding and attention. Stanford's Linac Coherent Light Source is another example: > "The Linac Coherent Light Source at SLAC takes X-ray snapshots of atoms and molecules at work, revealing fundamental processes in materials, technology and living things."
- LargoLasskhyfv 4y agoMoin. > "The European XFEL is a research facility of superlatives: It generates ultrashort X-ray flashes—27 000 times per second and with a brilliance that is a billion times higher than that of the best conventional X-ray radiation sources." [bzzt bzzt bzzt] https://www.xfel.eu/facility/overview/index_eng.html https://www.xfel.eu/facility/overview/index_eng.html