All of this theoretical physics is interesting in the sense that we're innately curious about our origins and the nature of existence, but there's only one thing that can make people really connect to something:
"Nice theory...but can you make money off of it?"
Quantum physics and general relativity, as they exist now, give the tools to make certain technologies possible. Will the observation of a Higgs boson (or whatever) lead to developments that can actually make money? For anybody in the know, explain to me how $7B worth of development costs will improve life on earth?
I know this sounds like I'm skeptical of such improvements, but I'm not so much skeptical as uninformed. Fix that for me, eh?
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