What It Means To Be Anti-Science:“world could well live without the Higgs boson”
science20.comIf we would only fund projects that have an measurable value a lot of things wouldn't exist.
We don't need to know about Higgs boson to research better bateries. But that had to wait till 90s and now it's biting us hard. Space program has stagnated for many decades too.
But it appears as if theoretical physicists don't consider anything of above a science?
Even so, for example if space was a priority, they could by now have huge particle accelerator on moon, free from many earthly constraints, with passively cooled superconducting magnets. Possibly much cheaper.
The higgs boson itself is not required for batteries, the future cpu/gpu research will be helpful for this research, because current cpus have to account for quantum effects. nobody expected to have to account for quantum effects in the duture when they build computers in the 70s