CERN's LHC Powers Down For Two Years

An anonymous reader writes "Excitement and the media surrounded the Higgs boson particle for weeks when it was discovered in part by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). But now, the collider that makes its home with CERN, the famed international organizational that operates the world's largest particle physics laboratory, is powering down. The Higgs boson particle was first discovered by the LHC in 2012. The particle, essentially, interacts with everything that has mass as the objects interact with the all-powerful Higgs field, a concept which, in theory, occupies the entire universe." We covered the repair announcement last month.

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To all you leftist science geeks

[Anonymous Coward]

The LHC is a travesty: putting a gun to the heads of citizens to pay for it, then robbing them again to pay for the enormous amounts of energy that it consumes. If this kind of research interests you, why can't you fund it yourself instead of threatening your neighbours with force?

Scientific research is not one of the responsibilities of government, which exists solely to keep us free. If a project like the LHC were really producing useful results, the free market would jump to fund it.