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by robertlagrant 1482 days ago
I don't trust CERN-based studies either. Anyone who needs a large hadron collider is just showing off.
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CERN is usually running experiments to validate ideas, confirm new hypotheses, in general push the boundaries. They wouldn't just go "let's do the same thing as last time - we've already got the results, but let's crank up the power to get a noise-level improvement in numbers accuracy".
I don't think anyone's trying to only get that level of improvement. And the LHC is the definition of cranking up the power.