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There's a point at which theory needs to catch up to observations before it makes sense to gather more observations.
by orangesite 4y ago
There's a point at which theory needs to catch up to observations before it makes sense to gather more observations.
- louissan 4y agowhat about trying to see such advanced fields of studies as (extremely?) long-term investments (for the species?). I'm sure that 20,000 years ago some crazy shaman was frowned upon for trying to "melt rocks and see what happened", or "ate some weird/unknown/sacred plants" or "what if I push this seed into this little corner of land and look after it (water, sun, defend if against herbivores)"? etc, etc, etc?
- philipov 4y agoMy understanding is that theory has blasted way past observations and what we need now are more precise observations. And developing the technology capable of making such precise observations has immense utility outside of the particular experiment that drives their invention. Even if superparters are useless, more powerful magnets are useful. Better sensors are useful. Better data processing technology is useful. And that stuff gets invented by the people probing to find superpartners.