Comments by "Lepi Doptera" (@lepidoptera9337) on "Does the world need a larger particle collider?" video.

  1. Yes, Einstein needed Eddington's (at the time) very expensive and complex expedition to get confirmation for general relativity.
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  2. They high energy physics community has thousands of "new ideas" in its theory folders. That has never been the problem. One can generate new ideas in high energy physics like clockwork. The problem is that without measurements we can't know which of these ideas describe nature and which are just poetry in mathematical motion.
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  3. The Chinese are also threatening to build a mile long spacecraft. ;-)
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  4. Of course it does, we just can't afford the one that we need.
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  5. Ah, so you are from the "Can't chew gum and walk at the same time" congregation.
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