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Wouldn't we very quickly notice if any of the basic laws of phsyics would change, or if any of the physical constants would nudge even a fraction of a million -
by Erlich_Bachman 7y ago
Wouldn't we very quickly notice if any of the basic laws of phsyics would change, or if any of the physical constants would nudge even a fraction of a million - because our machines (like microchips, radios, like quantum computers, like satellites, GPS, etc. etc.) would stop working as they were intended?
- mschuster91 7y agoYeah, we would notice it, but that's not the point of re-running these kinds of experiments. Just look what humanity was able to do in the Space Race with "computers" less powerful than an ordinary standard wristwatch of today: going to the moon, surviving there and coming back. Today? If it were not for SpaceX, the US would not have a path to access to its own manned transfer capability. If we do not use abilities, we lose them. Knowledge gets forgotten, data bit-rots, machinery rusts apart.
- Erlich_Bachman 7y ago> "computers" less powerful than an ordinary standard wristwatch of today: going to the moon, surviving there and coming back This is more of a statement of how little computing power is needed for rudimentary space travel. The technology itself was quite advanced, just in other aspects than raw computing power.
- mschuster91 7y agoSure but the US has lost so much abilities and especially knowledge. Most people active in the Moon-landing era are pensioners by now and there are at lwast two generations who have to start from scratch now instead of having decades of iterative tech improvements.