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The new data is what we're after ... to make discoveries! It's not just new data for new data's sake.

The LHC in that regard has fell short.




Discovering that there is nothing the be discovered is a discovery.


Only in a technical sense. Running experiments under unprecedented conditions that generate predictable results is trivial -- it happens literally every time you run any experiment, since conditions can never be perfectly replicated. The fact that nothing notable has popped up from recent LHC experiments is itself notable, but only just, and certainly not notable enough to justify the costs involved.




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