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RE: The future of particle physics - from the Large Hadron Collider to future circular colliders
I think we should stop messing around with things we don't know. The repercussions of this are unknown and i think we have already caused enough damage. Just my honest opinion though.
We would have never discovered anything by never trying to understand the unknown. Here, I am however a bit puzzled. Which damage has the LHC done? None to my knowledge. For the next generation of colliders, which damage do you expect us to do?
I just think that physics and science are going a little too far and playing God. Surely you have heard of HARP, smart dust, chemtrails to name a few. Yes, not in the same category as the collider, but definitely an invention from the same scientists who created the aforementioned. Again, this is my opinion. But there is enough evidence out there to prove that whatever man makes is most of the time used for power and control (too bad they don't realize this is simply an illusion). I am not a fan of man-made inventions especially when they try to take on the role they are not supposed to . Man by nature is destructive, abusive and a narcissist. But hey, that's my opinion. Don't get me wrong, science does have its plus side, but unfortunately we abuse our freedoms. Cheers.
One must be careful not to mix everything. Science is composed of many fields. I can only talk to what I know: particle physics / high-energy physics. For other branches of science (which are the ones you refer too), I do not know what is going on from the inside, as I am as an outsider as you are.
The purpose of all high-energy physics experiments is to understand deeply how nature works. Nothing more nothing less. I honestly do not understand what "playing god" means (to me it means nothing), in particular in the high-energy physics context. There is no power or control to take from anyone. Just trying, with the humans means we have, to understand how the dynamics of our universe. This is by the way what science has always done, in a broad extent.
Note that we also perfectly understand how our machines work. Believe me, this is safe.
Well from your perspective as a physicist i am in agreement with you. But unfortunately the world is not the one you know.. The real world is made of people and entities that take this kind of technology and power and use it for no good. This is the one i am talking about. As you know there are a myriad of examples as to why we should not be messing with our world. I don't believe it is up to us to figure this out as we are merely here as visitors, and what we learn here is irrelevant in the spirit of things. But again, i guess from your perspective, this means nothing. The internet itself is safe as well, but its application allows for more harm than good to be done, imagine a collider. Not trying to discredit anything, but again, humans are destructive and arrogant by nature. Cheers
How much you know of the "real world"? How many countries you have traveled? How many people you know , personally? How far you have gone from home, for more than 3 months in a row? I am asking because, very often, when people says "real world" they mean "real TV in my living room".