askCERN

i can give you an example. in 1800 the study of electricity and magnetism were considered an highly theoretical study with no practical uses. at most was used for circus shows. once understood by means of theory and experiments it shaped the modern world. try to think how could you live without electricity. the research we are carrying out at cern may seem far from everyday life today however will bring forward our knowledge of the natural phenomena and it has already practical spin offs. for instance accelerator technology is used for inoperable cancer surgery and as you may know the software protocol that powers the web was invented at cern (fr)

SteinsGate, if I am not wrong. But we don't do time machines yet. Ask me again yesterday, if this has changed in five years.

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Oh. Yes. But that has been handed over to SERN.

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There is fortunately no political input/interference in our work, and this is regardless of our origine or anything. What we do is just pure science! (nm)

of course you do. you are basically using the same geographically distributed computing protocol we run among our computing centers. so your CPU cycles are also crunching some bits of a potential new discovery! be sure of that! (fr)