Hope

My dad made some half-hearted attempt at criticising the money used on the Large Hadron Collider to which I could only mumble weak stuff about it not being anything like the money wasted on a few other things. However, in a blinding fit of clarity I have now found internal justification with the idea that while mankind is putting money into neutral project like understanding The Big Bang, we are not putting it into wars etc. The space programme was always a diversion from The Cold War. Anyway £3.5 billion is really peanuts if you think about it. The problem is not the absolute cost but the target. Anything is a weed in the wrong place.

It is the ultimate noble quest for truth and whether it discovers the Higgs Boson or not it will have been worth it on a purely intellectual level.