Sister blog of Physicists of the Caribbean in which I babble about non-astronomy stuff, because everyone needs a hobby

Friday, 12 February 2016

Spin-offs from theoretical physics

Some people will always question why they should care about scientific advances that have no apparent impact on their daily life – and why we spend millions funding them. Sure, it's amazing that we can study black holes thousands of light years away and that Einstein really was as much of a genius as we thought, but that won't change the way most people live or work.

Yet the reality is that purely theoretical studies in physics can sometimes lead to amazing changes in our society. In fact, several key pillars on which our modern society rests, from satellite communication to computers, were made possible by investigations that had no obvious application at the time.
http://m.phys.org/news/2016-02-theoretical-physics.html

2 comments:

  1. yeah.. But there is pure research and just trolling people with fake research... If you are doing physics and not doing any experimental previsions at least have the decency of calling it mathematics...

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