scott nous illumina en ce 2008-09-30 05:09 -->
>> HEP operates in a domain not presently or foreseeably applicable to 
>> everyday
>> life.
> 
> Heh, didn't someone famously say exactly the same when the transistor 
> was invented?
> 
> 
Not just for the transistor! When the Wright brothers made their first flight or 
the first photographs where made, the first computer constructed, the first 
vacuum tubes tested, peoples said something like: "It's all good and nice, but 
it will never get everydays use" Just remember that the very first steam engines 
where made during the Plato era...

-- 
Alain
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; 
that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

Mark Twain

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