{"id":32907,"date":"2025-04-14T05:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T09:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=32907"},"modified":"2025-04-13T19:07:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T23:07:04","slug":"one-small-cup-for-a-man-one-giant-carafe-for-all-mankind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/one-small-cup-for-a-man-one-giant-carafe-for-all-mankind\/","title":{"rendered":"One Small Cup for a Man. One Giant Carafe for All Mankind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Future Circular Collider (FCC) or as I call it \u201cThe Really, Really, Really Large Hadron Collider (TRRRLHC) is proposed to be 91 kilometers in circumference and estimated to cost $30-40 billion.\u00a0 Now granted, this is chump change when US military projects are considered.\u00a0 But when it is taken into account the fact that it is very, very, very unlikely to provide any useful information at all to scientists it does seem somewhat uncareful with the public\u2019s money.<\/p>\n<p>I was just watching Sabine Hossenfelder\u2019s latest video where she explains why the community of high-energy particle physicists despise her.\u00a0 You see she was a high energy particle physicist herself but she discovered that the whole field had become a racket.\u00a0 All of these highly intelligent scientists are basically engaged in fraud.\u00a0 Instead of doing actual research in physics they are employed at fabricating theories for which not a shred of evidence exists but for which tests can be devised to justify building larger and larger colliders.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How I Became Particle Physicists\u2019 Enemy #1\" width=\"783\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XqoyTSAF5g0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I give Hossenfelder credit for her integrity.\u00a0 She describes the personal vitriol that her colleagues heap on her for calling out their fraud.\u00a0 She is right.\u00a0 American and European governments fund these outrageously expensive instruments and also foot the bill for all of the research grants that fund the half-century long careers of all the thousands of particle physicists that subsist on this government gravy train.<\/p>\n<p>Well, at least in the United States a lot of this will probably be going away very soon.\u00a0 DOGE is tallying up the costs for and analyzing the alleged benefits of all these research grants.\u00a0 I think that the great majority of these research grants will be denied funding starting next year.<\/p>\n<p>Now, before being accused of being a Luddite, let me state that a case can be made for some scientific research being facilitated by federal money.\u00a0 I can see how research on nuclear weapons, laser systems to knock down drones and lots of other military adjacent categories could justify the government underwriting some part of the work.\u00a0 And there is probably biological research that the various government agencies on health could decide deserve government funding.\u00a0 But anything with dark energy, dark matter, worm hole, black hole, multiverse or string theory in the title should definitely be denied funding automatically.\u00a0 Likewise, any social science grants with the words diversity, equity, inclusion, DEI, intersectional, BiPOC, Latinx, gender, transgender, gender fluid, pansexual, LGBTQ, pronouns, feminist, white nationalism, white supremacy, whiteness, white privilege, white fragility, resistance, sanctuary or Trump in the title should be denied and the authors put in a database for rejection from that point forward.<\/p>\n<p>Look, industry will foot the bill for any scientific research for which applications in the real world exist.\u00a0 And the government can make a case for expanding knowledge in certain limited academic categories where knowledge can improve the lives of Americans.\u00a0 Predicting weather and solar storms are easy examples.\u00a0 But as fascinating as black holes and multiverses are let\u2019s leave these subjects to the Marvel Cinematic Universe to imagine and let scientists try using reality and experiments involving reality as their province.<\/p>\n<p>For my part I am willing to do my part and fund research on coffee that doesn\u2019t turn bitter after fifteen minutes on the stove.\u00a0 You see I believe in following the science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Future Circular Collider (FCC) or as I call it \u201cThe Really, Really, Really Large Hadron Collider (TRRRLHC) is proposed to be 91 kilometers in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,712,3545],"tags":[4868,2442,3876,3877],"class_list":["post-32907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-fake-science","category-science","tag-particle-physics","tag-physics","tag-sabine-hossenfelder","tag-scientific-research"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>One Small Cup for a Man. 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