Look at it this way: they are investigating phenomena that require a collider-sized object to see. So unless your application involves a collider sized object, it won't use any effect they discover.

The problem is that fundamental physics has moved too far beyond the scales where we operate.

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tehnub an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I don't think that argument holds up. See quantum mechanics.

	▲	pfdietz an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Quantum mechanics is demonstrable on a lab bench (or smaller), so your counterargument is completely wrong. Any useful consequence of a physical effect is, in effect, an experiment that could test that effect. So if the smallest test is with a machine the size of a small country, no device using the effect can be smaller.

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mmooss an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

You're in an IT forum and can't imagine implementations of both the smallest and largest scales? ICs are built at nanoscale and have to deal with quantum effects. PNT systems are so large that they have to deal with the speed of light and relativistic effects.

Many things humanity builds are on the scale of colliders.

> The problem is that fundamental physics

I didn't know there was a problem. It seems like one of humanity's greatest successes.