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		jampekka on July 14, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fitting an elephant with four non-zero parameters There will be no Copernicus if everybody just studies epicycles. E.g. there are massive resources put into the desperate WIMP hunt that could be used for finding new theories.

Dylan16807 on July 15, 2024 [–]

I don't see how those resources are fungible with each other.

jampekka on July 15, 2024 | [–]

Research funding is very competitive and scarce.

Dylan16807 on July 15, 2024 | | [–]

Building a physics machine, and thinking about how the equations might work, are so very different.

Does the latter even get funding?

jampekka on July 15, 2024 | | [–]

Of course. It's called theoretical physics.

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