frightning… lol

” they discovered the long-sought-after Higgs Boson.”

No they haven’t, not yet. They think they have found it. They still have to do some more research.

There are always those who say “just what good is pure research?”. For just one example out of literally thousands lets look at the SQUID (Superconducting Quantum Interference Device). Before quantum physics this was not even an idea. But when we started learning, through basic research, about quantum theory and it’s uses many useful things came out of the pure research labs. The SQUID made Magnetic Resonance Imaging possible. So due to pure research into quantum physics we now have one of the most useful and accurate diagnostic tools since the X-Ray.

To the knockers who say, “What’s it for, why should we waste money on this?”, just add up the cost of each cruise missile, each Hellfire missile, each drone, each nuclear powered aircraft carrier, each “smart bomb” the wonderful USA unleashes on civilians every day, and go and stand in the corner in shame. Cretins.

Seriously, it bothers me people posting “what good is this”… well I mean that throught process would put the US in the 13 colonies and that’s it, no moving West. That was expansion through blood sweat and tears along with money. This is just money, (and hopefully not creating a black hole or something that’ll swallow us) No trips to the moon, Most great leaps forward are due to wonder, or war…. the byproduct is technology. Sometimes technology for war but usually life too. Quantum research has created new direction that even star trek can’t even make up. This is only the tiniest of mild-stone. In 30-40 years we WILL have tiny little robots that unclogs your tubes, repair stuff. Injections that repair bad cell and kill cancer. Even more expansion of LASER tech, armor that can stop shrapnel and bullets but is 10 lighter and cars that are 10 times safer,