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Comment author: V_V 08 March 2016 05:35:52PM 0 points [-]

Would you label the LHC "science" or "engineering"?

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 08 March 2016 08:46:27PM 1 point [-]

The LHC is multiple things

  • a set of theoretical results describing what might happen under what physical circumstances
  • an application of said theory to a certain realizable sub-set of technological reality and the prediction of what happens then
  • an engineering effort to build a complex experimental apparatus

(and also a social process driving the people to do all this)

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