I didn’t need proof myself, but I suppose it’s comforting nevertheless to have it mathematically confirmed.

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    now you’re reminding me of that West Wing episode wherein they were asking what the point of investing in a superconducting supercollider was:

    Discovery.

    Not long after that episode aired, the Higgs-Boson was discovered at the LHC.

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      That episode aired in March 2002.

      LHC began operating in 2010 and the Higgs Boson was confirmed in 2012.

      The focus of the 2002 episode was on the SSC, the boondoggle of a collider that was being built in Texas and was cancelled in 1993.