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Your talking about applications not theory. And the new theories you mention (dark energy/matter) are right at the heart of the current crisis in physics.
by tus88 7y ago
Your talking about applications not theory. And the new theories you mention (dark energy/matter) are right at the heart of the current crisis in physics.
- kurthr 7y agoNone of those issues were even known of 100 years ago. We barely had the photo-electric effect much less the Copenhagen interpretation (1925) and they weren't fully accepted. Even so theory isn't much (see Strings) without application and experiment. Nobel prizes are given for things that have consequences rather than just seem interesting.
- tus88 7y agoGeneral relativity - 1915 Schrodinger equation - 1925 Theory is good when it explains observations, no application necessary. The latter is mostly engineering challenge, how do we refine uranium for example.
- kurthr 7y agoObservations sensitive enough to really confirm general rel weren’t possible until the 50s although the precession test in ‘19 was useful.