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From the Wikipedia page of the Large Hadron Collider "After some years of running, any particle physics experiment typically begins to suffer from diminishing
by mongol 5y ago
From the Wikipedia page of the Large Hadron Collider
"After some years of running, any particle physics experiment typically begins to suffer from diminishing returns: as the key results reachable by the device begin to be completed, later years of operation discover proportionately less than earlier years"
Perhaps the same applies to space telescopes too?
- dotancohen 5y ago> Perhaps the same applies to space telescopes too? Not really. The amount of targets that can be explored with JWST would take far longer than 20 years to image. And many targets, such as exoplanets or expanding novas, benefit from periodic reimaging with the same instrument.
- dredmorbius 5y agoThose targets themselves represent varying levels of interest and returns. The distribution of these is all but certainly a power law or Zipf function itself. That's not to say we'll run out of interesting things to look at. Only that there is in fact a case of diminishing returns and interest. But yes, space is big. And there's much in it.