Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Large hadron collider upgrade 'revolutionary' - BBC News" video.

Took many decades, and a lot of international cooperation. And money.
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“Atom” is like a jinxed word. It literally means “cannot be cut”. Yet every time that name has been applied to something, it has turned out be made of smaller pieces.
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Symmetry is a very appealing concept. Particularly since it could also explain why our Universe is mostly matter, with little or no antimatter.
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Big-G seems like a very tricky constant to measure accurately. There have been significant discrepancies between different experiments.
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Largest city in Nigeria?
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It was experimentally discovered, after having been previously theoretically predicted.
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@gawayne1374 That’s just repeating what you said before.
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I remember somebody filed a lawsuit to try to stop the LHC from being turned on, because of this supposed risk. The suit was chucked out.
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson was fond of pointing out at one point that NASA gets something like half a cent out of each 🇺🇸 federal tax dollar. If that were doubled, to just one cent, it could achieve so much more.
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The thing with curiosity is you can never be sure where it leads. Who knew, back in the 19th century, that playing around with Leyden jars and magnets would lead to the harnessing of electrical power? Or that understanding this weird stuff called “pitchblende” would lead to generation of atomic power? Or that trying to manage noise in telephone circuits would lead to information theory and the development of the electronic computer? Maybe a better understanding of gravity would lead to an actual “space warp” drive that would get us farther and faster across than Universe more easily than we can manage with rockets. Or maybe it will lead to something else. Who knows?
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@martinc.720 Spammer.
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People in 🇺🇸 seem to be turning more and more away from science.
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