Science LHC update

[Lamp]

BBC News - Large Hadron Collider results excite scientists

 

[cHodAX]

How much has this thing cost including running costs and still not produced what they were looking for?

 

[Lamp]

They don't even know if the Higgs particle exists at all. At least the scientists have something they can heat their lunch in...

 

[cHodAX]

They don't even know if the Higgs particle exists at all. At least the scientists have something they can heat their lunch in...

Fair enough, if it can heat weiners in under 10 seconds then at least we have got value for money!

 

[Zarjazz]

How much has this thing cost including running costs and still not produced what they were looking for?

Actually if they don't find what they were looking for (the Higgs particle) that is an even more interesting result as one of the major theories for physics from the last few decades would have to be scrapped.

 

[rynnor]

I thought this was rather telling:

CERN 'gags' physicists in cosmic ray climate experiment ? The Register