So the idea behind discovering this Higgs Boson... is.. that they think theres more to discover from it?
But what practical uses can we derive from this higgs particle? Besides it having an awesome nickname, the god particle.
I dont know, i am in two pieces right now, one saying "This is such a wonderful discovery! Because there might be useful things to be found in it!", another saying "Thanks god they found that useless speck of dust, now i hope you guys can concentrate on bigger issues as for example the fact that our planet is slowly turning into a pressure boiler or the fact that most brownies you find in the supermarket tastes like crap compared to home made ones."
I might just be one big dumbass redneck that isnt even a real redneck, and if so, just tell me.
There isn't a question of 'might this be useful', its going to be useful. There has never been a scientific discovery which hasn't found an application in some way. If you're asking for exactly what application the Higgs will provide? I have no fuckin idea. But, when radio were first transmitted, it was deemed pretty useless. A novelty. When the telescope was first invented, that too was a novelty. When magnetism was first discovered? That too was consider a novelty.
Yet, their applications and uses have blossomed and shaped everyones lives greatly.
Did Newton know that figuring out force is equal to mass times acceleration that we'd get to the moon? Did Eistenstien envision GPS satellites? And to rephrase MSH, did the Wright Brothers think about ultra sonic jets? Or none stop flights to Australia? Or the monumental impact they their invention and new discoveries would have on the worlds military industry or socio political fallout from being able to travel so fast and readily across great distances? Of course fuckin-not.
The bitching you're doing, DrPoo, is infantile.
So the only reason why we spend so much money and energy that could have been used on irrigating Sahara or something else directly useful, is only because we /imagine/ that the discovery will be followed by useful new discoveries leading to practical use? Its like all those useless arctic missions they made back in time, they sent out people on dangerous and expensive missions, thinking there would be something great to be found.
OH SHIT, guys! He's right! Fuck. fuck. Wait. We need to get all all the particle physicist and materiel engineers, mathematicians over to start digging ditches in the Sahara, because their skill sets are totally transferab... wait thats an extremely stupid idea.
Investment in the future is never a waste. You really seem to be operating under the delusion that fundamental research cannot give any return on investments, which is really fucking ridiculous as we're all typing on COMPUTERS, CONVERSING OVER THE FUCKING INTERNET. All at one time, started as fucking expensive larks being paid for by grant money with no real aim for mass application or how it'll reshape our entire lives.
And not only that, but you posit this If Or kinda of thing really blindly? You seem to be imply that there isn't any effort to irrigate the Saraha. Or that we can't possibly split our focuses in multiple directions. When there is an article with Pop SCi (I think) with a massive plan to do huge amount of irrigation of the sarahra to retard or reverse the effects of global warming via changing global weather patterns, all at the same causing millions and millions of gallons of desalinated water to be used for agriculture or industrial use. But it'd cost 2 trillion dollars a year to maintain.
Or that there are countries in the Sahara desert which do irrigate, and irrigate quite successfully. Libya springs to mind.