Related question: What’s the point of finding the Higgs-Boson? I mean, what could we get out of it?
What we could get out of it is understanding. Where might that understanding lead? We don’t know; we don’t have it yet.
There is likely little practical value in searching for the Higgs boson. The analogy would be “what’s the point of looking at the sky with telescopes?”
The point is to understand the world around us. In the case of the Higgs, finding it or not finding it will tell us whether the Standard Model of particle physics is correct. If there is no Higgs (or Higgs-like particle) then we really have to step back and re-think a lot of our theoretical framework. There is also no reason to look only for the Higgs; we want to look for any particles that might be out there. The Higgs gets a lot of press because it is 1) the next logical (and least speculative) particle we expect to find (the last unobserved particle in the Standard Model of particle physics), 2) we really do expect to find it soon (it was surprising it was not seen at the last major accelerator, the Tevatron), and 3) it has an interesting role – giving particles their mass (so it got given the silly name ‘God particle’). But even if the Higgs weren’t a factor, we would still be searching for new particles/physics at higher energies (there is no reason not to expect new and exciting things – in fact there is good reason to so called ‘beyond the standard model’ physics).
It’s almost as if it’s reading your mind…
…hmmmmmmm…
Who wants to invest in my Tin-Foil Hat Company start-up?
Actually, that’s short for “God-damned particle”, so called because of the frustration researchers have had with not finding it.
My understanding is pretty much what Cecil said:
Lederman says the God particle was so named because (a) it’s short for “goddamn particle,” presumably owing to the difficulty of establishing its existence, and (b) finding proof of said existence would help us understand the “mind of God.”
Regardless of precisely what was meant by b), it is arguably a more unique particle than your basic leptons and quarks and gauge bosons, and this is often run with a little overboard in the media.
The Large Hadron Collider have never found anything beneficial for mankind. It was manufactured to satisfy the ignorance of a few physicists.
Maybe you can give us a list of all the other physicists that already know everything?
What on earth do you mean by your post?