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While a valid topic for a lecture or handful of folks, missing gravity or matter at distances greater than we’ll ever travel are like missing white kids’ pictur
by fortranfourier 6y ago
While a valid topic for a lecture or handful of folks, missing gravity or matter at distances greater than we’ll ever travel are like missing white kids’ pictures being put on milk cartons in the 80s:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing-children_milk_carton https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing-children_milk_carton
Part of the universe will remain unobservable, until we can bend space that far safely.
What about making liquid nuclear fission better instead?
- monocasa 6y agoThinking about these concepts are what made systems like GPS possible. Shitting on pure research leaves you not knowing what you don't know to a much greater degree.
- fortranfourier 6y agoThe meaning of life is essential also. Feynman was curious. Where would we be if he obsessed over cosmology?
- monocasa 6y agoNo, like the quest of understanding cosmology is one of the pillars of scientific knowledge that enables our civilization from an engineering perspective. Ignoring it stops real progress. Also, feynman's Nobel was about blending cosmological concepts into quantum theories. If he didn't obsess over that stuff we'd be without a lot of tools we used for nuclear engineering, and I'd argue distributed computing considering how inspired by feynman's work Lamport is.