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Practical uses of LHC findings?

We are all concerned about the potential dangers of the LHC, creating black holes and weird stuff, that sounds like science-fiction. Assumming a 100% security in this project and we aren't all eaten by a sudden black hole created there.... What are the potential uses of the findings expected from the Large Hadron Colider? What will be the practical use be and in what term? (5-10-20-50 years?)

What REAL things, besides physics theory, proving certain theoremes and that scientific stuff can we expect from it. I mean, new power sources? Would this pontentially bring us the energy independence from oil? Ultra-small nanno-devices? Longer lifespans?

I really can't figure out.

ozo

Well, if the only findings are expected findings, like finding the Higgs boson, then we don't really learn much new, we just confirm what we already thought.
More interesting would be unexpected findings.

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neopolitan

The large hadron collider is designed for pure research. No practical benefits have been described or hoped for. As we know, theoretical research has in the past led to unforeseen discoveries of practical benefit and we can hope this also will do it.

These pages detail on LHC:
http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/Safety-en.html
http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1092437/files/CERN-Brochure-2008-001-Eng.pdf