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Particle physics tends to be pure research, but there's a chance that they might find something entirely unexpected that might bubble up into research into rene
by pmjordan 18y ago
Particle physics tends to be pure research, but there's a chance that they might find something entirely unexpected that might bubble up into research into renewable energy or material science.
- mattmaroon 18y agoMany areas of physics start out as pure research and are applied much later to life changing technologies.
- pmjordan 18y agoOne of the most famous examples of course being the photoelectric effect, which kinda went dead for many decades until it started being applied in digital cameras.
- michael_nielsen 18y agoThe photoelectric effect was an important step along the way to quantum mechanics, without which there'd be no transistor, and probably no personal computer, or Hacker News.
- cstejerean 18y agoIn case anyone else is wondering what transistors have to do with quantum mechanics http://madsci.org/posts/archives/mar2000/952639215.Ph.r.html http://madsci.org/posts/archives/mar2000/952639215.Ph.r.html