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Posted on 2/11/16 at 12:03 pm to Rize
Really. How in the hell does this benefit humanity at all?? Gives us a type of understanding?? How does that help society or health or you know....anything that is important. Waste of Fn money
Posted on 2/11/16 at 12:33 pm to Rize
Second page, huh? Surprised you clicked this one Copernicus.
Allow me to hazard an attempt at a paraphrase:
"I don't understand how the discovery of any waves like these invisible and therefore pretend gravitational ones is at all useful to things like radiation therapy for cancer patients. Since I don't understand it, it's impossible and stupid anyway."
Allow me to hazard an attempt at a paraphrase:
"I don't understand how the discovery of any waves like these invisible and therefore pretend gravitational ones is at all useful to things like radiation therapy for cancer patients. Since I don't understand it, it's impossible and stupid anyway."
Posted on 2/11/16 at 12:59 pm to Rize
This is pure science, not applied, so your question is legitimate, but your implied conclusion is extremely naive. Today's technology, including CAT scans, MRIs, nuclear medicine and radiation therapy, are all based on physics discovered over a century ago. We didn't know what the applications would be when those discoveries were made, and we can't predict all of the applications for this new knowledge at this time, but there will be applications that will change our lives. With the accelerating rate of technological development, we may see applications sooner rather than later. I for one, however, am thrilled by the knowledge alone, without the need to justify it, but the applications will come and they could be astounding.
Posted on 2/11/16 at 4:11 pm to Rize
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Who gives a shite. How will this help me out personally? We should be spending this funding on curing cancer not playing around with fricking ray guns and wave machines.
Well, this specifically won't cure cancer, but it could mean a Nobel Prize, and LSU would be able to claim a share of that.
Nobel Prize winning research universities should have an easier go at acquiring funding for research... and that can be applied to.... ta da! Cancer.
Why on earth would you want to limit scientific research of any kind? This is what universities do. Good Lord, man... wake up!
Posted on 2/11/16 at 5:04 pm to Rize
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Rize
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Who gives a shite. How will this help me out personally?
You poor dumb bastard.
Posted on 2/12/16 at 3:39 am to Rize
I doubt a physicist will ever cure cancer but I'm willing to bet that the same scientist that can receive the same or more amount of funding
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