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Are you a physicist? This sounds like the opinion of a non-physicist. In physics we usually work on and publish basically any idea possible, just so that we hav
by bowsamic 4y ago
Are you a physicist? This sounds like the opinion of a non-physicist. In physics we usually work on and publish basically any idea possible, just so that we have a full picture of what actually is possible and what the challenges are. Of course it's better if it's practical but that's not a necessity
- walnutclosefarm 4y agoTrained in physics, computer scientist and engineer by profession, now retired. My opinion wasn't about the feasibility of this, but rather that of a tax-paying citizen who expects to get value for money spent. I don't see it in this, and I don't really expect the authors imagined they would be describing something that was likely to get any funding attention - the project is too big, and too far out there from an engineering perspective, given the little we'd get from it. So, yeah, I think their writing a long feasibility study is just published paper padding.
- bowsamic 4y agoBut a feasibility study is important scientific work even if it is unlikely to be produced. It could lead to much more realistic or cheaper designs for example