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At some point physics entitlement has to end -- why not here? We can't just keep scaling up the size and cost of fundamental physics experiments. Eventually t
by pfdietz 9mo ago
At some point physics entitlement has to end -- why not here? We can't just keep scaling up the size and cost of fundamental physics experiments. Eventually the cost becomes so large that platitudinous arguments for them don't work.
- micromacrofoot 9mo agoWe absolutely can, and I reckon we will... this is like a fraction of a percent of science funding which is a fraction of a percent of GDP, we spend more on maintaining warheads we can't use 10% of the US military budget for one year could build a 100km collider, RHIC is 4km
- pfdietz 9mo ago[flagged]
- micromacrofoot 9mo agoThe point is that there's so much bad spending that by comparison this is practically nothing to shake a stick at, and it produces actual science.
- pfdietz 9mo ago[flagged]
- SiempreViernes 9mo agoNo, you just asserted that you think existing arguments are invalid, then accused a person who disregarded your assertion of being "dogmatic".
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- Izikiel43 9mo agoIt's not a question of "can", it's a question of "should". No one knows what discoveries can happen and what the spillover from them could be in the future. In essence, it's a bet, a moonshot.
- mmooss 9mo agoHow can you look at current and recent US science and call it 'entitlement'? Have there been larger cuts anywhere in modern history?
- pfdietz 9mo ago[flagged]
- MSFT_Edging 9mo agoIt's not an entitlement if you're paying into the tax base. I'm somehow entitled to others receiving corporate bailouts, entitled to massive military waste spending, and entitled to seeing the "victims" of Havana Syndrome receiving free healthcare for life. Yet I am not entitled to this money going towards research for the greater good of humanity?