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What's the point even. This experiment doesn't test any important hypotheses so it's nothing to do with advancing science
by mkoubaa 5y ago
What's the point even. This experiment doesn't test any important hypotheses so it's nothing to do with advancing science
- simonh 5y agoMore detections gives us information about the population characteristics of various sized black holes and neutron stars. We have models for star and galaxy formation that these events can validate, which in turn can also tell us about conditions in the early universe.
- redis_mlc 5y agoCollecting data allows scientists to later propose experiments. For example, collecting weather data for hundreds of years allowed us to develop climate models.