Re:Cool, but what is the practical application? (Score 1)

A lot of the discoveries that are made or that are trying to be made as far as particle physics goes can not be applied to solve problems today. However, the millions of tax dollars that are used to fund for particle accelerators will not be in vain. 20 years from now, we could encounter something that can ONLY be explained by our newly found discoveries on the fundamental properties of matter. If we were not to spend any more tax dollars to build accelerators that could raise particles to even higher energies, we might regret it later on when we notice something truly bizarre and can't explain it. We would be stuck and would not be able to progress much further in that field.

Same goes for a discovery such as this. It might not have many uses now, but it could serve as valuable information in the future.