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again what is the practical value of any of this ?

• astrange 4y ago
  Can't just sit around all day. Or rather, planning useful projects only gets you things you already knew to ask for. Doing basic research is a way to create things you didn't know to ask for.
  • tonymet 4y ago
    get all of those minds building a better reactor and when they succeed they can take a break and play games
• sampo 4y ago
  It's the continuation of the same line of work that long ago gave us nuclear power, nuclear bombs, nuclear medicine (MRI and PET scans, cancer treatments). We don't know if this line of work has / will have practical value anymore. But we have been at this for such a long time, there is momentum and it's maybe difficult to stop and reorient. There are opinions, that we should stop and reorient: https://bigthink.com/hard-science/large-hadron-collider-economics/ https://bigthink.com/hard-science/large-hadron-collider-econ...
  • tonymet 4y ago
    in other words not a new practical discovery in 70+ years