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Experimenters don't do their work just to verify theories. (Source: I'm a theorist, but used to do experiment.) They built these 'telescopes' because they wa
by auntienomen 9y ago
Experimenters don't do their work just to verify theories. (Source: I'm a theorist, but used to do experiment.) They built these 'telescopes' because they want to observe the world via a new medium. They're going to be doing cutting edge astronomy with them for decades.
- xenophonf 9y agoDude, we still do cutting edge astronomy with optical telescopes (1608) and spectrographs (1876)! I'm pretty sure the awesomeness horizon of the GW observatories is a lot longer than a few decades. ;)
- auntienomen 9y agoFair point, although I meant these specific instruments, not the more general class of instruments.