[colechristensen]

This is such a weasel question because you can keep saying whatever was new was "just technology" not pure discoveries.

No, there hasn't been any big "new physics" since the standard model in the 70s, everything has been refinement and specifics. You can't go to Walmart and buy something that couldn't exist unless we knew the precise mass of the top quark or the Higgs boson.

There have been a tremendous amount of developments and technologies that have come out of CERN with varying degrees of closeness to particle physics, but depending on who you're talking to, most of them don't count.

>(Specifically, "discoveries", not technology developed in support of the research)

Ok, but Tim Berners-Lee was working at CERN when he created HTTP, HTML, etc.

The Internet through web browsers as you know it was created at CERN in order to enable scientific communication and collaboration.

[mike-the-mikado]

I was hoping that someone would be able to point me to some practical technical advance enabled by discoveries or measurements at CERN (or similar establishments).

It seems plausible to me that better understanding of the properties the subatomic particles might enable some previously unexploited technology (e.g. in quantum computing or sensing).

[colechristensen]

Very very close to 100% of your entire lifetime experience of the world has only to do with the effects of gravity and the behavior of electrons both of which are extremely well understood and will be until (or if) a MAJOR paradigm shift in science that might not ever happen. Until theres commercial fusion or some extremely exotic high energy physics consumer products in hundreds of years the behavior of the strong force or discoveries about such just won't have impacts in daily life. Lots of technology has been developed and filtered down to everyone as a result of particle physics in the last 50 years but the actual end result discoveries not so much. We're waiting for revolution at ever higher energies and those might not be realized until daily life for humans looks extremely different. We're just sticking our toes in the ocean of knowledge and for daily life, we're stuck with electrodynamics.