LHC back online in ten..nine......

[Digga]

Watchman said:

The bit you cut and pasted was context. My question was about who the investors are and whether they had invested because of a stated return, or whether they had just speculated on the outcome.

I was trying to answer that generally - no one can possibly 'know' the outcomes and therefore the potential return on investment. Specifically, I don;t know exactly who bankrolls it, although I guess that can be discovered.

ETA here: http://home.web.cern.ch/about/member-states

All I know is I don't want their leccy bill getting mixed up with mine.

Edited by Digga on Friday 6th March 15:08

[Rich A]

Moonhawk said:

Yes there are pressing issues in the world - but at least experiments like this may lead us to a better place - rather the the money being wasted on frivolities like football etc.

Don't let your facts get in the way of a good tabloid rant.

[Firebox7]

Digga said:

You got a least two sensible answers to a question that barely merits acknowledgement. Now please stay out of the debate if you cannot keep up with the science.

I spat my tea out... Fair play for responding without expletives.

[hornet]

I can understand concerns over the money involved, but it still grates, given CERN's contribution to the very platform we're discussing it on. Look at how much the internet has changed society in the last 20 years or so, then wonder if any of that would've happened had CERN not had funding? You also have the engineering, computing and materials knowledge gained from building such a huge project. That all filters through to more mundane applications, even if they're not entirely obvious at first glance.

[Einion Yrth]

hornet said:

I can understand concerns over the money involved, but it still grates, given CERN's contribution to the very platform we're discussing it on. Look at how much the internet has changed society in the last 20 years or so, then wonder if any of that would've happened had CERN not had funding? You also have the engineering, computing and materials knowledge gained from building such a huge project. That all filters through to more mundane applications, even if they're not entirely obvious at first glance.

To be fair the internet existed, at least in embryonic form, before TBL came up with HTTP. Had he not I'm sure that some other similarly useful protocol would have appeared. Computer geeks and hackers are like that.

[SlipStream77]

Firebox7 said:

Digga said:

You got a least two sensible answers to a question that barely merits acknowledgement. Now please stay out of the debate if you cannot keep up with the science.

I spat my tea out... Fair play for responding without expletives.