> so we should be asking, "What experiments help us learn the most?" when we spend it. Understood, but isn't the point of not saying "What experiment will yiel

> so we should be asking, "What experiments help us learn the most?" when we spend it. Understood, but isn't the point of not saying "What experiment will yield something I can sell?"", is that we don't know the answer to the question "What experiments help us learn the most?" Again, the LHC isn't that expensive. Mark Zuckerberg lost more money over the last two days to pay for both the LHC and the Hubble.