| Kratos_36 said: I like the whole LHC thing. You have to like a machine that looks like that. But... I'm not a professor , nor a super smart scientist , so , what is the use of crashing these atoms into each other ? Yeah , to find out more about our universe wen it was very young. But aren't there more useful things to put those billions of dollars in ? Like finding something as an alternative to oil , medical development , space exploration ? |
You'd be surprised how these answers can be important.
Things like the theory of general relativity probably didn't seem of much practical use at the time but is now an essential part of things space-related, such as the GPS system. Quantum also probably seemed a impractical, but it has profound implications for the future of energy which will probably be powered by fusion.
An understanding of the universe eventually seems to pay off in practical terms.
Also I think knowledge for the sake of knowledge is good enough =P.
