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kachapopopow
40 days ago
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Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard?
None of the comments seem to mention that it's also really really really really really expensive.
layer8
40 days ago
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That depends on what you compare it to.
kdavis
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Almost anything, i.e. the next generation accelerator[1] at CERN is about 15B CHF which is about 20B USD.
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https://home.cern/science/accelerators/future-circular-colli...
padjo
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So roughly half the the annual budget of ICE?
bloggie
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About a third of Madoff's fund, a little over a month of Google AI spend, about nine months of Ozempic sales. Fun!
kachapopopow
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"quite literally everything else", well you got iter etc but those are on the same spectrum. It's rare that military projects in the US get that kind of funding.
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