"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message
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> somebody wrote:

> > discovered more than a decade ago at Fermilab, an older generation
collider
> > than LHC.

> Ten years is a rather short time for practical applications from
> something like this.

As is 100 years.

But 10 years is a perfectly valid timeframe for many a medical research to
give fruits.

> How long between discovery of Maxwell's equations
> and practical applications thereof?

Maxwell wrote his equations as practicaly applications of electromagnetism
(or electricity and magnetism) were being developed.

> How long between the invention of  relativity and the launching of GPS
satellites?

Einstein did not get a $10 billion grant to follow a wild goose chase. He
explained an existing problem.

Not all science is wasteful, I make no such claim. Just the opposite, I
claim that the worthiness of scientific research needs to be examined on a
case by case basis. High energy physics research, amongst all branches of
science, is the least useful of sciences. In fact, it has zero application,
past, present or foreseeble future. Don't confuse the matters by comparing
it to electromagnetism. Even the ancients, when they rubbed materials
together or observed magnetic materials, had already discovered practical
applications of electromagnetism. The theory was developed in conjunction
with applications, or to explain applications and observations.

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