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Old 03-09-2010, 11:52 PM   #50
Hack&Lube
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Originally Posted by Daradon View Post
So, aside from a wealth of knowledge only about 1% of the population will understand or care about anyway, will there be any benefits from these experiments? I mean I know that obviously there could be long term benefits in energy production, possibly propulsion, and (ugh) weaponry, but are there any round the corner applications that this exercise could carry with it?
These things are mostly done to help understand the universe to and to work on the models of the laws (or lack of laws) of the universe. They are mostly academic but the most relevant thing I can think of is experiments could maybe help us with the development of quantum computing for tomorrow's computers.
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