On Monday, 17 December 2018 01:58:51 UTC-5, Quadibloc wrote:
On Friday, December 14, 2018 at 7:50:13 PM UTC-7, RichA wrote:
Yes, it did facilitate providing proof of the Higgs, but hasn't done anything
since then.

That's sort of a "What have you done for us lately?" comment, since that alone
justified the effort in building it. Now that it exists, it's the best
instrument available for high-energy research.

Maybe it will point out that an even bigger accelerator is genuinely needed for
new physics. The negative result that the Standard Model is pretty good to
energies as high as it can reach, while unexiting, is useful too.

The blame belongs to the way the Universe works, not how it was built.

John Savard

You can't be serious. It's like spending $1 billion on a moon rocket that can't break orbit then blaming the rocket.