LHC Full Documentation Released

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The Large Hadron Collider has tons of documentation on experimentation and building specs. <a href="http://www.iop.org/EJ/journal/-page=extra.lhc/jinst">This flows from the idea of the scientific community that information sharing is key for progress to be made</a>. Now you know I'm going to make a snide remark about how the media companies are stifling innovation, didn't you? I guess I'm done with that remark.

The LHC is planned to make black holes that will SUCK UP THE EARTH!!! No, just kidding. In reality, the LHC will make miniature black holes that will decay very fast and give us a better understanding of the universe. Progress like this can happen only when large undertakings are complete.

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To be fair, scientific discoveries aren't usually businesses.

But I said progress... meaning progress for humanity as a whole (think arts).

I agree with you, but I'm just saying a comparison between the two a little unfair.

I don't find it unfair at all.

If the science community thought like the entertainment industry we would be stuck in the stone age.

But the purposes of the two industries are very different. The sharing of info that makes the scientific community flourish wouldn't work in media.

No they aren't.

You're part of the generation that they brainwashed into thinking that what they provide is different.

Entertainment is art which is made for human consumption and to progress the human identity.

Art and science are one in the same in terms of importance for humanity.

But one is mostly commercialized and the other is not.