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> The funding scam you mention is a reference of "these people get billions for particle research but the outcome for us as society is way to small"

More specifically, even particle physicists admit that a 2x or even a 10x bigger accelerator is not expected to find anything fundamentally new.

The core criticism is that it has become a self-licking ice cream cone that serves no real purpose other than keeping physicists employed.






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