"Cern should really build a larger auditorium. The present one is nice and cosy, but it is embarrassing and sad to see many distinguished colleagues queueing up at five in the morning knowing that they have a slim chance to get a seat, after working for 20 years on finding the Higgs boson,said Dorigo (a scientist on the CMS experimental team at Cern)."
Well, that's gratitude for you. The thing cost 8 Billion dollars (that they'd admitted to the last time I looked) and who knows how much to operate. You've got to wonder how much of that came out of Dorigo's, Higgs' and the other "many distinguished colleagues" pockets.
It's a subatomic particle, for Pete's sake, it's not the solution to global warming or hunger. I'd like to see a list of practical benefits to living beings that have come out of the quest for the last three or four subatomic particles and an honest estimate at the cost.
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