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Finally someone is willing to see if string theory is true and the possibility of a parallel universe existing is exciting.

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I agree in part with you smack. This could yield exciting results. Im intrigued like you. I still think there are more important things that could use this kind of funding. Like LAW said. Who is to say they will use this to benefit though. Could just be another weapon. Could be the catalyst for another war. Who knows? We all know the possibilities. Its in our history. I'm sure Einstein didn't intend to have a bomb created out of his research. That is what happened.

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I think it is unfair to say this project takes money away from more worthy causes, when so much money is wasted on failed projects and other stuff that isn't nearly as important as LHC.

For example... William W, McGuire was a former CEO of United Health Group. He was forced to resign after a scandal involving the fraudulent backdating of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of company stock.

After his resignation, he received a farewell severance package estimated to be around 1.1 billion dollars.

The London 2012 Olympics is expected to cost upwards of 9 billion pounds. That's around 16 billion US dollars to you guys. and it's almost certain to end up way of budget. And how long is the Olympics going to last? Like a week?

China just wasted 164 billion US dollars on a telecom system which they are now not going to use.

The US government has spent 250 billion on the war in Iraq. 50 billion went to private contractors.

By contrast LHC is expected to cost somewhere between 4-8 billion dollars, and it isn't just a failed project, it will further our understanding of the universe and might do a lot of good.

Also Law it is not just about leisurely consumer products. Don't you think having cars which run on clean fuel and don't use rubber tires which are harmful to the environment will help in the fight against global warming. Don't you think it would be nice if we didn't have to concrete over parks and playing grounds just to build more roads and multi story parking lots.

Also no one is going to be flying over traffic because that would be dangerous, and against the highway code, and probably violate air traffic control regulations too. It would be a whole new system where cars and roads are replaced by something better.

And finding new dimensions isn't about finding alternate realities. It's about proving the existence of very tiny coiled dimensions of space, which effect the behaviour of very tiny particles.

That might sound like pointless bullshit to you, but actually advances in this area will have a profound knock on effect in other areas of science, such as medicine and engineering.

They have been throwing money at trying to cure Aids and Cancer for years, My dad told me that when he was at school they used to be raising money for children in Africa. That was 50 years ago, and what has change? Nothing. They can't even cure the common cold let alone Aids.

Large breakthroughs in technology might actually be the first step in changing all that. LHC a step towards improving human technology across the board. To say it isn't for the greater good, is just insane.

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