General Chat

Money well spent!

Probably considerably less than people
spend on cat food!

xxx mick

Well,I dont really know enough about this to be honest,but..
.. it still seems a waste of money to me.


the money could have been used in a more useful way In my opinion.

I agree that its an interesting experiment hope it helps them solve the mystery of black holes

I read a theory that our universe may have been formed by the left overs of another universe which died.
They seem to think there may be other universes out there, to me this makes sense , i mean theres never one of anything is their

Chris



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I wonder how many people on here have benefited themselves (or know someone who has) from the various forms of medical scanners which detect diseases such as cancers?

These were developed as a direct result of the technology discovered by earlier similar experiments to this one.
There are other examples which may interest and surprise you here.
http://www.fnal.gov/pub/inquiring/matter/whysupport/index.html

We are all in favour of research into cures for disease and to end various forms of suffering in the world. What isn't often appreciated though is that many advances in science and technology come unexpectedly while researchers look for other things.

Three years ago I took part in a European Community project to involve ordinary citizens in scientific research. I was one of 126 lay people chosen at random from 9 different countries to discuss the latest findings in brain science.

http://www.meetingmindseurope.org/europe_default_site.aspx?SGREF=14

As a result of our research, our deliberations, the conferences and discussions with experts we were all in agreement that the EU should fund more pure research in medical research.

This surprised some of the experts since they had assumed that lay people would automatically see any research without a known aim as pointless but we were convinced (having learned much about it) that it is pure research that often leads to unexpected findings and great leaps forward.

A consequence of our Citizens' Recommendations to the EU Parliament was that more taxpayers money should be spent on pure research and I am pleased to say the EU has already increased funding.

Scientists don't just sit in empty labs thinking "Today I will try to find a cure for cancer". All sorts of strands of science work together to increase the sum of human knowledge and benefit us all.

Sue

Actually the £5bn cost was shared between 20 countries. Britain contributes £34 million a year towards running costs.

didnt realise we had put money into it......... :(

i like science, it appealed to me to know more about the universe, i hope for the money spent it gives out a great deal of information..

kaz xx

Your last few replies may well be correct. Wonder what they said about the first people who dabbled with electricity, all those years ago.
Almost every invention started with research into almost ridiculous ideas.

Best wishes anyway Happy days

I think i have to agree Roxanne .........


so they could, possilby, find out how the world started ............... so what !!

it's here and it exists - surely they should be worrying about how to preserve it - far more important one would think ???

Sorry,I think its a huge waste of money!

what possible gain can we see from this?

Very interesting experiment which may well benefit mankind eventually. "First there was nothing" and the nothing seems to have exploded. If there was something who created all that?
Where does God figure in all this? On balance, I think all this will lead us to be more ungodly than we are now.
Happy days

Well Rita
Go back a little further
You could live in your family tree

xxx mick

Yes - back to the caves!
It's much safer there!

xxxxx mick

We only want to know about space so we can get out there and start interfering with it.

Kemp, hun, you just can't help yourself, can you, lol.

This might help explain why it matters.

http://www.fnal.gov/pub/inquiring/matter/future/index.html

The "Why support science" link on that page explains that
"The sometimes far-future applications of advances in basic knowledge, the tools used to carry out the research can themselves be found in surprising and general applications."

For example the European high-energy physics laboratory CERN led to the Web and without research done there, we wouldn't be discussing this on the Internet.

Sue

I personally think its fascinating we can learn so much about why and how we are here.

I read about it in a fictional book a Dan Brown one I think and although the book was fictional it did have some truths in it and that was when I first heard of antimatter. And now they are actually managing to achieve this, why shouldnt we question and explore our existance.

I can just see Eldrick pulling his woman round by her hair ......

They have been doing some of this work for many years it was just that they couldnt build the tunnel quick enough to do the test all them years back ....but we do have a small one running in England ....

You know what?......all I keep thinking is how many lifes could have been safed, by the cures created from the money they have spent on this.

Shouldn't that be what really matters?

The experiment is especially trying to find a particle called the Higgs boson - dubbed the "God Particle". According to the theory, particles acquire their mass through interactions with an all-pervading field carried by the Higgs.

The latest astronomical observations suggest ordinary matter - such as the galaxies, gas, stars and planets - makes up just 4% of the Universe.

The rest is dark matter (23%) and dark energy (73%). Physicists think the LHC could provide clues about the nature of this mysterious "stuff".

Scientists need to try to find what the missing matter is in the universe. Understanding what the universe is made of and how it is made could lead to tremendous leaps forward in technology.

Sue

Sorry, Rita - I dont understand what you are saying

:-(