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by xv1823 2744 days ago
What technology came from the LHC? Or string theory for that matter?
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cygx 2744 days ago
https://kt.cern/technologies

https://kt.cern/cern-technologies-society

If you want to include past contributions, that WWW thing is kind of neat...

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T-A 2744 days ago
Except it had nothing to do with physics and was not a research project, just yet another hypertext system.
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yorwba 2744 days ago
Tim Berners-Lee developed HTTP (and the underlying idea of "hypertext" made of interlinked documents) to support scientific collaboration at CERN.

I'm not aware of any technological advances produced by the measurements at the LHC, but it has been running for barely 10 years. On the other hand, building the thing probably required significant innovations in magnets and sensors.

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