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Is it just one avenue? While I'm not a particle physicist, my layman understanding of LHC is that it can be used to test many theories that would otherwise go u

• yakak 4y ago
  > Should we only research things that are cheap to test and eventually mass producible? Of course not we should choose avenues according to what they are likely to achieve being better than alternative allocations. For another LHC that is a huge burden to overcome. What is so great about LHC2 that you want to keep space exploration going at a crawl with commercial companies showing how to do it on a shoestring budget? Maybe the LHC2 will cause a discovery the LHC won't but is that probability of learning something worth sacrificing a huge portion of our resources on? Or is this that we made people gain an expertise and they want to continue with its path even though it's a pretty bad one to continually invest more and more in? Personally, I have mixed feelings about learning fission and I would rather explore space and have functionally independent colonies before we blow ourselves up with a new subatomic discovery.
• ncmncm 4y ago
  There are no theories left that LHC, or any collider we could build, can test. Strings are right out. Nobody has offered any clue as to how to make a prediction that could be tested with possible equipment. That does not mean none ever will, but it does not seem to be their focus. Physics departments like string theorists because they come with no equipment budget.