What new technologies may emerge as a result of tests conducted on the LHC?

[The Night Owl]

We've heard a lot about discoveries which may be made as a result of tests conducted on the LHC, but what about new technologies which may emerge from those tests?

[greenman3610]

1. what's a LHC?

[salvorhardin]

2. Large Hadron Collider

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider

As for the OP's question, it's pure research so we just don't know. I don't think there's any way to predict what kinds of technologies may develop from research conducted with the LHC.

[The Night Owl]

3. The LHC may be the most important instrument ever built...

http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/LHC-en.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider
http://www.lhcountdown.com/

[Ghost Dog]

4. Maybe it can provide input to the ITER

... (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) nuclear fusion research project at Cardarache, if there's time?

[Indenturedebtor]

5. Warp Drive!

Oh and a better grilled cheese sandwhich :P

[Bill McBlueState]

6. I wonder what James Clerk Maxwell would have said

if you had asked him what new technologies were going to emerge from Maxwell's equations.

[The Night Owl]

7. New means of communication over long distance? {EOM}

[Phoonzang]

8. Black hole generation and planet implosion.

...just kidding. ;)

[Posteritatis]

9. The neat thing about pure science is that you can't (and probably shouldn't) predict applications nt

[The Night Owl]

10. I like to do things I probably shouldn't do.

:evilgrin:

[phantom power]

11. New technologies will most likely be....

byproducts of the actual construction of the LHC, and the management/analysis of the large volume of data coming off of it. I wouldn't hold your breath for any new exotic technologies as a result of discovering new subatomic particles, if that's what you are thinking.

[caraher]

12. What new technologies emerged from Tevatron

and other high-energy physics experiments over the last 30 years or so?

The main thing I can think of is building these colliders pushes magnet technology and high-speed electronics/computing. The science discoveries (finding quarks, Higgs, etc.) have essentially zero technological importance, as the phenomena occur in energy regimes that are not useful for "everyday" science. This even goes for things like fusion technology; GeV/TeV-scale physics at very low densities is quite different from the MeV-scale physics at high densities relevant to any practical fusion reactor.

It's a little bit like asking mathematicians what the uses are for their work. Most of the time it's about pushing the boundaries of knowledge, and the "practical" impacts are mostly secondary.