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IMO this isn't just a Twitter thing. When I ran a company, we had a public forum that, in the beginning, was civilized. As we approached about 2000 people, that 5% you're talking about became so much of a problem that we had to shut them down. And in fact, it wasn't even 5% (100) people causing most of the problem: it was more like 10.
10 people or 10%?
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It didn’t came out of the LHC project. (The LHC project was approved in 1994. There had been a decade of planning but that had nothing to do with the creation of the web.)
Opps yeah, was mixing it up with CERN in general. All the work on WWW and earlier hypertext there wasn't just for early LHC planning stuff but it has been a noted thing: > Should China build the Great Collider? > Stephen Hawking and Gordon Kane 2018 > [...] > This has shown up in the past from the LHC in a number of well documented areas, including inventing the World Wide Web with its huge impact on economies world-…
Not everything is the same in the context of this discussion: one may think that LEP was good, and even that LHC was good when it was approved, built and put in place and also think that it's a waste of resources now.
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Opps yeah, was mixing it up with CERN in general. All the work on WWW and earlier hypertext there wasn't just for early LHC planning stuff but it has been a noted thing: > Should China build the Great Collider? > Stephen Hawking and Gordon Kane 2018 > [...] > This has shown up in the past from the LHC in a number of well documented areas, including inventing the World Wide Web with its huge impact on economies world-…
That someone has written that before doesn't make it true. The "World Wide Web" was invented at CERN but that happened in the LEP era. LHC has absolutely nothing to do with it. Not everything is the same in the context of this discussion: one may think that LEP was good, and even that LHC was good when it was approved, built and put in place and also think that it's a waste of resources now.
A bit of a meta comment, but a lot of people are calling Hossenfelder "crack potty" or "ranty" and I just don't get that at all reading this post or the many before. She seems upset yes from the abuse she's received, but that seems understandable. I don't understand how people feel she is so combative unless you already disagree with her.
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Einstein discovered the theory of relativity purely through thought experiments. I don't think he thought those thought experiments are that useful.
Why wouldn't Einstein think that his thought experiments are that useful?
“all models are wrong but some models are useful” tells us just to go find useful models, and the beautiful truth is not important. I don't think it is not important.