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What else can the Atom Smasher do?
Can someone explain to me what good does the atom smasher has for mankind? I know it could help some curious mind to uncover the mysteries of the universe, like the "big bang" or the gravitational forces of the black hole.. but isn't all these discoveries too elusive and useless to mankind? So what if we know how the universe was created or how a black hole can suck up thousands of planets and bend the ray of lights? Are there any better discoveries line up in this massive multi billion dollar LHC project? In a more practical way I hope? I thought the discovery of compact disc has much better contribution than smashing 2 protons at the speed of light..lol. Forgive me if I haven't been reading much, I have not indeed.
We have internet way before LHC was build dumb duck.
I watched the live web-cast at CERN while they were powering up the machine (roughly 7 hours of it).
Aside from possibly answering the age old question of why we are here (big enough in itself), they explained that the LHC has many benefits for mankind.
Learning about subatomic particles, how they work and how we can manipulate them will vastly increase our knowledge of the world around us, enabling for new technologies in just about everything you can think of: computers, engineering, space travel, even the medical field.
Most noteworthy was that the LHC will be heavily influential in the research and treatment of diseases, cancer in particular. I think that is a massive benefit, don't you?
Professor Brian Cox at CERN explains it a lot better than me:
Question: What advantages (besides increase in knowledge) do you expect to obtain from this?
Answer:
"Experiment is the basis of the scientific method, without which there would be no modern world as we know it...
... without these experimental discoveries, and the subsequent deepening of our understanding of the Universe, there would be no electronics, no silicon chips or transistors, no medical imaging technology, no nuclear power stations, no X-rays or chemotherapy treatments for cancer...
... What this should teach us is two things. First, it is virtually impossible to deepen our understanding of Nature without experiments. Second, understanding Nature has never been a bad idea - indeed without the pioneers of the past century, our civilisation would be immeasurably poorer.
... I do not know what the continuation of this long and illustrious quest will lead to, but I would be extremely surprised if a writer called upon to defend scientific enquiry at the turn of the 22nd Century does not point to the LHC as the foundation of a hundred new technologies, each considered essential to our quality of life."
You can read the whole article here where he gives insight into the possibilities of the LHC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7598996.stm
Also, for further reading (if you so wish):
CERN:
http://public.web.cern.ch/public/Welcome.html
Large Hadron Collider:
http://www.lhc.ac.uk/index.html
All told, September 10th, 2008 could prove to be a very instrumental and historic day. Who knows what future technologies we will have the LHC and the people at CERN to thank for.
EDIT:
The world wide web was actually invented at CERN, albeit long before the LHC.
See here:
CERN - where the web was born:
http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/en/About/Web-en.html
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