How will we benefit from the LHC? Video
How will we benefit from the LHC? Video Transcript
>> This is all being conducted under the auspices of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, otherwise known as CERN, but more than 80 countries are contributing money, technology, or scientists to the project. There have been Israelis and Palestinians, Indians and Pakistanis, Iranians, and Americans working on the Collider [assumed spelling] and everyone will share in the scientific results. James Gillies [assumed spelling] is CERN's Chief Spokesman. Do you ever worry or concerned that you could turn this thing on and it won't work?
>> James: I think we feel pretty confident that it's gonna work, because everything you can possibly test along the way has been tested.
>> Gillies told us the kind of equipment malfunctions and delays the project is now experiencing are not uncommon and to be expected.
>> James: It's a very complex machine, nothing like it's been done before, it's its own prototype in some sense.
>> All of this is being done to satisfy scientific curiosity.
>> James: I would say it's all being done to satisfy human curiosity.
>> But are there practical things that are likely to come out of it?
>> James: I'm pretty sure there will be in the long term. I mean, the history of science shows us that the big advances in human technology come about through curiosity during research.
>> Can you give me an example of something that was created here for research purposes and changed the world?
>> James: Yeah, the best known one is the world-wide web.
>> The system you use every day to click on links and move from one internet site to another was invented in these corridors to help scientists do research. Because CERN has been required to share its scientific discoveries, the web was given to the world for free, it's helped transform society, and private industry has made billions off of it. ^M00:01:37 [ Silence ]
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