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 d

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...