and to justify the next accelerator...
Granted, the Higgs was the Bread and Butter for CERN, hasn't it already proved invaluable in other areas? What I mean is: will it be seen (within the particle physics community, anyways) as a failure if the Higgs is
not found? Hasn't it already advanced our knowledge of physics at that scale?
"Why don't you call upon your God to strike me? Oh, I forgot it's because he's fake like Thor, so bite me" -Greydon Square