I support super-colliders for the same reason I support space research. If we aren't on earth to discover something greater than ourselves, what purpose do we have?
I could see the creation of a utopia or an equitable state as another purpose. I suppose some people don't support super-colliders because they want money to go to this goal instead.
Some people don’t support supercolliders because they want us to “discover something greater than ourselves”, but they think there are better ways to do that, and money spent on huge HEP projects takes funding away from what could be more fruitful and interesting projects.
>If we aren't on earth to discover something greater than ourselves, what purpose do we have?
This almost sounds like the secular version of the tower of babel. The point of building scientific instruments ought not to be the worship of science as some sort of ritualistic activity.
We (ideally) engage in science to maximize human knowledge and insight, not to just build a utopia or the 2001 monolith.
I could see the creation of a utopia or an equitable state as another purpose. I suppose some people don't support super-colliders because they want money to go to this goal instead.