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> So many more science experiments with better expected ROI could be funded for the money needed for the FCC Ok, like what? Let the scientists at CERN decide w
by thrance 9mo ago
> So many more science experiments with better expected ROI could be funded for the money needed for the FCC
Ok, like what? Let the scientists at CERN decide what to spend their funding on.
- naasking 9mo agoCERN shouldn't get that funding if they're going to push for the FCC. Funding is often contingent. Even sticking only to particle physics, there's lots of other research that could use that funding better, like wakefield accelerators and muon colliders.
- thrance 9mo agoI mean, CERN is already funding many other projects? It's a huge organization. Why should the FCC specifically be forbidden to them? Who else than the actual CERN scientists has the competence to decide what to allocate funds to? I used to subscribe to this anti-collider contrarianism too, but then I realized that it is not that common among actual researchers.