 There are some things that we think are worth knowing about, the knowledge of which would not change the expected value of any action that one might be contemplating performing. We spent billions of dollars conducting an elaborate experiment to determine whether the Higgs boson exists, and the results were promising enough that Higgs was awarded the Nobel Prize for his prediction. The discovery may also yield practical benefits, but it is the cognitive change it induces that makes it worthwhile. It is valuable simply for what it did to our credal state – not just our credence in the existence of the Higgs, but our overall credal state. We may of course be wrong about the Higgs – the results might be misleading – but from our new epistemic viewpoint it certainly appears to us that we have made cognitive gains. We have a little bit more evidence for the truth, or at least the truthlikeness, of the standard model.