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Fostering hope and wonder

机译:培养希望和奇迹

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The much anticipated powering-up of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has certainly captured the imagination of people the world over. Built in an existing 27-kilometer circular tunnel on the Franco-Swiss border at a cost of approximately USdollar5 billion, the LHC was designed to smash protons together to solve some of the basic mysteries of the universe. It is not difficult to see how such an exotic goal-no doubt the envy of scientists in other fields-can foster wonder about science in the public's imagination. Aside from the obvious financial constraints, what are some of the basic issues physicists had to overcome before building the LHC?An obvious one is agreement among scientists on an appropriate goal. The LHC has been the aim of a considerable portion of the physics community for three decades, with hundreds of scientists agreeing that it was necessary. This seems simple enough, yet few might argue that similar collective agreement about what 'needs to be done' forms less frequently in other scientific fields-such as in biological research. Why?
机译:备受期待的大型强子对撞机(LHC)的加电无疑已经吸引了全世界人们的想象力。大型强子对撞机建在法国和瑞士边界现有的27公里圆形隧道中,耗资约50亿美元,旨在将质子粉碎在一起以解决宇宙的一些基本谜团。不难看出这样一个异乎寻常的目标-无疑是其他领域的科学家所羡慕的-如何在公众的想象中激发人们对科学的好奇心。除了明显的财政限制外,物理学家在建造大型强子对撞机之前还必须克服哪些基本问题?一个明显的问题是科学家们就适当的目标达成了共识。大型强子对撞机一直是物理学界相当一部分人的目标,这已有三十年了,数百名科学家都认为这是必要的。这似乎很简单,但很少有人会争辩说,在其他科学领域(例如生物学研究)中,关于“需要完成的事情”的类似集体协议形成的频率较低。为什么?

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