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Raechard -> RE: Making wimps and machos (9/7/2008 5:02:51 AM)
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Reading the article it seems it won't be as expensive as you think seeks, not zillions anyway. Although the particle accelerator in Europe is trying to discover similar things using a far more expensive approach I suppose. We have a saying "What a fool spends £1 million pounds to build an engineer can achieve with only £1, this is a good example of looking at a problem in a different way to find answers. It’s nothing new either I think they have a similar device in a volcano in Japan. The mines were already there so didn't take any extra funding to excavate, it seems, and the machine I'm told in the article is the size of a cupboard. The only real expense is the personnel and what would these people being doing instead? Solving global warming? Hardly because that's a different field altogether and a man on the street would have a better chance solving that
Also this project is a good example of Russian and US collaboration, who'd have thought that was possible in the current news climate? Personally I think these projects are important, no matter how much they cost because we should always be striving to discover more than past generations otherwise we are leaving questions and knowledge behind in the past and that is dangerous for our evolution. Current scientists should always be up with the knowledge gained in the past even if it means their whole life they will be conducting pointless experiments. These people are also the ones that will pass on their knowledge to the next generation without them we are moving backwards.
The theory may be wrong but if anyone has a better more credible theory they are always invited to put it forward and come under criticism for it. Not many people want their ideas to be looked at critically so they don’t come forward.
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