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human
What would the discovery of the Higgs boson mean in terms of practical application? 

The media is apt to compare the work going on at the LHC to the space race in the 60s, an endeavor that produced discoveries that changed the face of modern technology. If the experiments at CERN really do reveal the Higgs boson, what exactly does that mean in real world terms? What new technology might we expect from such a discovery?
gpt
Much like the 60s space race, actually being on the moon wasn't practical. It was the technologies that *got* us to the moon that were. The same is largely true of particle physics. Knowing that a Higgs boson exists is nice and it tells us about the universe we live in, and maybe there's some unforeseen technology out there using it. But the "practicality" comes from designing new superconducting equipment, software to search through mountains of data for rare signals, and other associated technology used to *find* the paricles.