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This is unfair. Obviously our knowledge is incomplete. We have yet to make that all important connection between general relativity and qft and as far as I can
by fhood 8y ago
This is unfair. Obviously our knowledge is incomplete. We have yet to make that all important connection between general relativity and qft and as far as I can tell, next steps towards that process are not clear. So banging shit together even harder to see if it can produce some anomalies doesn't seem like the worst possible idea, and at the very least it might rule out more possibilities.
- danharaj 8y agoThe author's point is that you wouldn't expect to see quantum gravity at any scale we could feasibly probe for the next few centuries. If one can't come up with a theoretical justification for such an anomaly then perhaps that money should be put towards a more promising project. It's all about opportunity cost.
- macintux 8y agoOpportunity cost plus future budgeting. If we build a bigger collider and find nothing useful, it’ll be that much harder to persuade lawmakers to fund an even bigger one later.
- magicalhippo 8y ago> The author's point is that you wouldn't expect to see quantum gravity at any scale we could feasibly probe for the next few centuries. However the next-gen gravitational wave observatories should be able to start poking at quantum gravity, from what I understand.
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