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What will we get out of the LHC?

  • 11-09-2008 11:41am
    #1
    Zascar
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,781 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    So I've read about and seen video's about what they hope to find out with this experiment, but I'm wondering will it actually have any positive impact on the average person in the future? If they do find what they hope to, how will this filter down to e.g. better technology for the entire plant?

    Or is this just a very large and expensive play toy for the scientific community to play with?


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  • #2
    eZe^
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,046 ✭✭✭eZe^


    http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=how-lhc-may-change-internet

    It basically says that if this comes through, you will be able to access any data anywhere on this grid, as if it was saved to your hard-drive. An internet with no noticeable download times... How great. :P


    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article4692222.ece


  • #3
    Professor_Fink
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 861 ✭✭✭Professor_Fink


    Zascar wrote: »
    So I've read about and seen video's about what they hope to find out with this experiment, but I'm wondering will it actually have any positive impact on the average person in the future? If they do find what they hope to, how will this filter down to e.g. better technology for the entire plant?

    Or is this just a very large and expensive play toy for the scientific community to play with?

    We never accurately anticipate how new physics will help us in the future. Quantum mechanics has given us lasers, semiconductors, superconductors, and nuclear power. It has created the computer revolution. Particle physics alone has led to huge progress in medical imaging, and let's not forget that CERN gave us the web.

    We can never know ahead of time where new discoveries in physics will take us. The only thing we can be sure of is that we are making positive progress.


  • #4
    norrie rugger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,656 ✭✭✭norrie rugger


    What is the point of investigating something, if you already know the answer.


  • #5
    AtomicHorror
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,888 ✭✭✭AtomicHorror


    norrie rugger wrote: »
    What is the point of investigating something, if you already know the answer.

    Sometimes you get funny-coloured fire. That's worth doing again and again.


  • #6
    norrie rugger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,656 ✭✭✭norrie rugger


    AtomicHorror wrote: »
    Sometimes you get funny-coloured fire. That's worth doing again and again.

    That's not investigating, that's showing off;)


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  • #7
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    cant believe no one has posted this yet.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM


    Surprisingly informative :)

    DeV.


  • #8
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    They dont "know" the answer. They have a very well behaved theory.

    The LHC is the first time the energies will be high enough to prove their theory. (at least thats my understanding of it!)

    DeV.


  • #9
    norrie rugger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,656 ✭✭✭norrie rugger


    DeVore wrote: »
    They dont "know" the answer. They have a very well behaved theory.

    The LHC is the first time the energies will be high enough to prove their theory. (at least thats my understanding of it!)

    DeV.

    Exactly. With out doing the tests we can never get the answers.
    With out the answers (and the new questions posed by experimenting), we can not even predict what new tech could come out of it


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