/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15853001
In addition to all the applicable engineering that came out of the effort, including the goddamned world wide web you're broadcasting into like a mad man, a lot of people think that knowing how reality works is a worthwhile thing to spend cash on.

On the other hand, yes, there is the inconvenient truth that, theoretically, until we make a collider large enough to encompass the goddamned moon, we're never going to have fully explored all the possibilities. (Though one could imagine the sort of practical technologies you'd develop trying to do that.)