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Remember that the people who make these discoveries are scientists. It's one thing for a person on the street to be skeptical it's another thing when a scientis

Remember that the people who make these discoveries are scientists. It's one thing for a person on the street to be skeptical it's another thing when a scientist in the field in question is skeptical. Now these guys don't even have a hypothesis on how to turn the machine on. Forget the engineering. They can't get an idea to work. I'm with the GP, this is not very exciting. Even having a working idea on how all the parts may work would be more exciting than this article.

kamaal 13y ago
>> It's one thing for a person on the street to be skeptical it's another thing when a scientist in the field in question is skeptical. No, Scientists are human beings too. And the fact is, a scientist's thoughts are biased based on what the person knows. People co relate the events to happen in future on the basis of what they know right now. Which is the root cause of all problems. Though sometimes skepticism is perfectly valid. >>Now these guys don't even have a hypothesis on how to turn the machine on. These guys are not working on building the machine. >>Forget the engineering. Exactly. The first rockets were not built by directly opening up the lab and making the prototype in the first hour. Even while building things like the first rocket, or the first viable airplane a lot of math and physics work had to be done. Which is what is happening now. >>They can't get an idea to work. Seems like they already have experimental test bed to verify their math. >>I'm with the GP, this is not very exciting. Even having a working idea on how all the parts I'm excited. Its not like software where you fire up your IDE and just get down to coding. That works with software because 100% of whatever we do is already done and proven by nearly everybody else. We just exercise the same to our domains of business. Building some thing like a warp-drive may very well require some years of work on math and physics before any field trials are started. Basically nobody has done anything like this every before. No one knows the consequences, or the side effects or even the kind of effort such an endeavor would demand. If you want an easy analogy, Alonzo Church died finishing his work on the lambda calculus before he could see a working electronic computer. Same could be told about Alan Turing. Yet these guys had mathematically demonstrated all they said was possible. When the first gates were built, people expressed the same skepticism if the combination of these AND-OR-XOR gate will ever achieve something substantial. Or when the first brick was built, and when the first wheel was built.

kamaal 13y ago

>> It's one thing for a person on the street to be skeptical it's another thing when a scientist in the field in question is skeptical. No, Scientists are human beings too. And the fact is, a scientist's thoughts are biased based on what the person knows. People co relate the events to happen in future on the basis of what they know right now. Which is the root cause of all problems. Though sometimes skepticism is perfectly valid. >>Now these guys don't even have a hypothesis on how to turn the machine on. These guys are not working on building the machine. >>Forget the engineering. Exactly. The first rockets were not built by directly opening up the lab and making the prototype in the first hour. Even while building things like the first rocket, or the first viable airplane a lot of math and physics work had to be done. Which is what is happening now. >>They can't get an idea to work. Seems like they already have experimental test bed to verify their math. >>I'm with the GP, this is not very exciting. Even having a working idea on how all the parts I'm excited. Its not like software where you fire up your IDE and just get down to coding. That works with software because 100% of whatever we do is already done and proven by nearly everybody else. We just exercise the same to our domains of business. Building some thing like a warp-drive may very well require some years of work on math and physics before any field trials are started. Basically nobody has done anything like this every before. No one knows the consequences, or the side effects or even the kind of effort such an endeavor would demand. If you want an easy analogy, Alonzo Church died finishing his work on the lambda calculus before he could see a working electronic computer. Same could be told about Alan Turing. Yet these guys had mathematically demonstrated all they said was possible. When the first gates were built, people expressed the same skepticism if the combination of these AND-OR-XOR gate will ever achieve something substantial. Or when the first brick was built, and when the first wheel was built.