science

To be fair to the scientific community, one more collider is probably more valuable to society than the equivalent cost of bombs and military equipment

• No profit motive
• No immediate application to weapons manufacturing
• Cutting edge state-of-the-art science
• Foster international collaboration
• Help us understand the true nature of our universe
• Creates both blue collar jobs (electrician, mechanical engineering) as well as train future experimental physicists

What's the downside again?

This is funny but also each new collider has done more for physics than any new lane has ever done for traffic.

i don't even care if they don't find anything, I just want them to dig a big ring under switzerland

Don't know why these nerds need to build high speed colliders when I can just point two flashlights towards each other and turn them on.

hell if this one actually has the chance to finally create a black hole and destroys earth im all for it

This is just a miss so I hope its just a meme. Pretty sure if it was a Chinese project the reaction would be exactly the opposite.

Anyway money is fake and doesn't matter anyway. In the US case It isn't a zero sum game, its not like money from say education is going to the military. The actual fact is they don't want to spend it on those things. The US government can afford an essentially unlimited budget. The reasons things don't get done are entirely ideological period.

At the end of the day, if you had the power to say, reduce the US military budget substantially and actually invest in the public good then you obviously already won the class war and the US is no longer ruled by capitalist class interests. In that case, sure go ahead and bean count, otherwise it really doesn't matter. The alternative is to pretend the US is some liberal/sucdem shit country that must have a balanced budget, "oh noes money going to random stupid science project is money not going to public healthcare". No that is not how it works at all, that is liberal/neoliberal economics shit.

These science projects are important IMO because quite literally nobody else would do them otherwise. Heck I would even say its one of the very few good things the US and co actualy do for humanity.

Equatorial collider or bust.

Everyone here is missing the point that this would give every existing particle physicist 15 new 600 - coauthored papers. Think of the CV lines. Cosmic inflation has nothing on this.

EQUATORIAL COLLIDER WHEN?!?!?!

we're just 5 years away from making string theory work bro trust me

edit: actually i probably shouldn't lump particle physicists with string theorists

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