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allan_ecker said:Also it's not so much a discovery as a collection of theoretical constructs. Because they apply to such a small domain there aren't a lot of experiments that have any hope of testing the theories.
As such a lot of physicists really hate string theory
We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.
Marie Curie, Lecture at Vassar College, May 14, 1921