Well, I guess I better make a bunch of sensationalist posts about how we are all going to die, based on a complete lack of understanding of particle physics, ignoring all those that are qualified, and ignoring the fact that these kinds of energies have been hitting the Earth constantly for the past ... 4.5 billion years.
Personally, I couldn't care less about the machine. I'd rather spend the money on something useful rather than potentially destroying the world. Call me stupid that way :/
You're fucking retarded and ignorant. It is not going to destroy the world when the high energy experiments take off, because the same thing is happening in our atmosphere, right now as you read this. It's been doing similar things with energies vastly larger than the LHC for the past 4.5 billion years.
Interestingly, a similar question to the ones the LHC et al. hopes to answer is "what are atoms made of" (yes, I know we have the answer, let's see where it leads).
Now, imagine for a second what would have happened if people like you were in charge of funding for this experiment:
"What is the point of trying to find out what atoms consist of? It's completely useless in the real world"
And this hypothetical answer would have turned out to be staggeringly wrong. As it only provides the foundation for modern chemistry and physics.
Remember, if we didn't know about electrons, our understanding of Chemistry would be massively reduced. No modern chemistry means you can kiss goodbye to many of the materials you take for granted today. And that's a drop in the ocean.
If we didn't understand about protons and neutrons, we wouldn't understand radioactive decay. We wouldn't have as good an understanding of quantum mechanics (which came about from later experiments). And quantum mechanics is extremely important in many industries now, especially as technology becomes increasingly smaller.
Of course, if you're stupid you will demand to know what practical use is before something is discovered. The intelligent, even if they're not interested in the sake of the research for the knowledge alone, will see that previous experiments have caused many new technologies to be developed, and that there is no reason the same will not happen here.
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