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Big Bang in Switzerland
datalas:
It depends ...
The last set of real research into particle physics led to the understanding of thermi layers and the development of the transistor, discovering the ellusive "god particle" or the source of dark matter / dark energy could lead to the development of cheap clean energy and spell the end of the climate change etc...
Granted any such answers are years (if not decades off) but, should that stop us doing the research ? There are plenty of wastes of money, and whilst this one was jolly expensive, there are other, more "wasteful" projects in my opinion... besides, it keeps theoretical physicists off the streets, and that can only be a good thing.
Tommo:
--- Quote from: boss on September 10, 2008, 21:45:59 ---my thought is that there are more pressing issues at hand that the money could have been spent on! an experement by definition is something that may not happen. and it is answering a question that doesnt really need to be asked at the moment. 20bill on cancer reaserch would have been a better idea IMO.
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Honestly its an amazing project. once it has all been sorted we could well know most things about the very fabric of the world we live in.
ben_haynes:
--- Quote from: Lord Shagg-Pyle on September 10, 2008, 20:43:57 ---Big Bang? Big load of < [-X > more like! All this from a country that so far has to its credit such World stopping items as Tobelerone, Heidi, and cuckoo clocks!
Pah! I fart in their general direction!
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you forgot the Swiss Army Knife :lol: :lol:
strapping young lad:
swiss roll
swiss cheese
action scene in first bourne film
what more do you want
Eeyore:
--- Quote from: strapping young lad on September 11, 2008, 00:01:09 ---swiss roll
swiss cheese
action scene in first bourne film
what more do you want
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....jewelled watch movements (the Swiss once supplied 60% of all the watches in the world)
....Lindt chocolate!
....Reis robots!
So, aside from accurate timepieces, chocolate confections, holey cheese, film locations, popular fictional childrens characters and large investment oppotunitys, the pocket utility knife and the pacafist army, what have the Swiss ever done for us? :lol:
Shame that cuckoo clocks are Bavarian and that most of CERN and the LHC is actually in France (and funded by much of Europe). :lol:
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