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Well you seem like an authority so I will trust you on that.

• m4r35n357 7y ago
  OK you don't sound convinced; let's try another way of putting it. If it were any use, scientists would be using it. They are very practical like that.
  • theaino 7y ago
    > They are very practical like that. Or not. "Science advances one funeral at a time." Related HN discussion from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21911225 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21911225
    • m4r35n357 7y ago
      Should I have said "physicists"?
      • theaino 7y ago
        It wouldn't help your case since that's a paraphrasing of this quote from Max Planck: “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”
        • m4r35n357 7y ago
          . . . but only if it _works_, which is the point I was making.