Spending money in order to expand the limits of usable human knowledge? Pretty good value if you ask me, what better alternatives can you suggest? You might ask

Spending money in order to expand the limits of usable human knowledge? Pretty good value if you ask me, what better alternatives can you suggest? You might ask though, why they didn't fund megaprojects in less "developed" disciplines, like life sciences, or materials, or brain sciences. Maybe LHC will be the last of a series of non-life-sciences projects, like the ISS or Hubble.