Sounds cool!

[MrFun]

Your work becomes important if they ever want to secure capital to fix the machine once it blows up again.

[Solomwi]

I'm not an experimentalist. My work becomes important if they run for a while at 7 TeV and don't see the Higgs.

So there's an outside chance that 5 years from now the papers I've written will become monumentally important.

I'm archiving all your "936 hours without sleep" threads for the "Behind the Physics" TV special sure to come when that happens.

[KrazyHorse]

I thought there was a couple of things that they were more likely to see at lower energies?

JM

Like what? It's not impossible, but AFAIK most of the major results are easier at higher energies

[KrazyHorse]

I'm archiving all your "936 hours without sleep" threads for the "Behind the Physics" TV special sure to come when that happens.

[Drake Tungsten]

So there's an outside chance that 5 years from now the papers I've written will become monumentally important.

"Monumentally important"? How exactly is it going to affect my life?

[Kuciwalker]

It'll teach the terrorists how to make black holes.

[KrazyHorse]

So there's an outside chance that 5 years from now the papers I've written will become monumentally important.

"Monumentally important"? How exactly is it going to affect my life?

I have no idea what that has to do with anything. You're completely unimportant, so its effect on you is irrelevant as to its importance.

[Theben]

Like what? It's not impossible, but AFAIK most of the major results are easier at higher energies

More funding

[Drake Tungsten]

I have no idea what that has to do with anything. You're completely unimportant, so its effect on you is irrelevant as to its importance.

Fine. How will it affect the lives of anyone who isn't a physicist (including very important people like Brangelina and Bono)?

[Asher]

Three things:

1) Time travel
2) Faster than light travel
3) INSTANT MICROWAVES

[KrazyHorse]

I have no idea what that has to do with anything. You're completely unimportant, so its effect on you is irrelevant as to its importance.

Fine. How will it affect the lives of anyone who isn't a physicist (including very important people like Brangelina and Bono)?

You're finally beginning to ask relevant questions.

[Drake Tungsten]

Does that mean I'm worthy of an answer now?

[KrazyHorse]

As soon as you pay me for one you'll get it.

[Drake Tungsten]

Sorry. I suspect your answer (much like your monumentally important research) simply isn't worth enough to justify spending money on it.

[KrazyHorse]

Next you'll be saying that my quant work won't be worth what I'll be getting paid to do it.