Is It Worth the Money?

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You can't do high energy particle physics in a very effective way without spending a lot of money. Unlike with the large hadron collider, we don't have a target. You just have to smash other particles together and see what comes out. So i think it is an unique kind of project where there's lots of justification for trying to do it. If you build the next collider without having found anything new at the l h c, you're just going on a fishing expedition. It's a hard call to make, and i'm glad that i'm not the one making it.

Welcome to the June 2022 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! We are inaugurating a slightly different publication schedule, in which these monthly AMA will take the place of one of the regular Monday episodes, rather than being in addition to all of them. A slight tweak that will hopefully make my obligations a little more manageable.

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