I worked on some SUSY models last decade and the LHC limits were a pretty big blow to everyone's motivation, mine included. Maybe we find something at the next energy frontier, but there's not a compelling reason to go there yet. One could say that it would be good to measure Higgs parameters, but we could also do that with an electron collider at the Higgs resonance for likely a lower cost. It's a mess

and the higgs is important, but not nearly as important as people make it out to be

well and exiting science brain for a second there's the like human question of the cognitive dissonance of burning so much surplus on investigating mass generation models while so many people are hungry or unhoused or suffering from lack of access to basic medicines or clean water 😵‍💫

We'll end up in a worldline without IBM

Like when the US got really into the space race

rockets are the same technology as missiles the space race was a show of nuclear force

They already collide calcium i believe to get quark plasma. They need to collide electons with positrons for interesting stuff tbh, this is likely shenigans.

The issue is quarks produce tons of garbage, bigger nuclei produce more tons of garbage, but when you get a pile of it you can call it a new state of matter