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>exotic matter
>high energies
Why do theoretical physicists do this? Science used to be about building mathematical models that explain reality based on empiricism; now it's about calculating the properties of things that don't exist, or can't exist, in the real world.

>> No.7433717

Theoretical > empirical
Empiricism is only there to provide evidence for the best ideas

>> No.7433721

>>7433717
Pretty b9 b8, m80.

>> No.7433726

>>7433717
your ideas are useless and your scientists studying them should be threatened with jobs at burger king if they can't produce some fucking results in the form of applied science in technology.

>> No.7433761

>>7433692
We have move passed the level of physics which can be observed, at least with our level of technology.

>> No.7433780

>>7433761
so here's a suggestion, why don't you stop developing physics and start working on better machines for a while?

>> No.7433787

>>7433692
>High energies can't exist in the real world

Top kek.

>> No.7433790

>>7433692
Because it's fun. And we get paid to do so (i.e. "be theoretical physicists" . Not much, but still, getting paid for having fun is a lifehack.

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>>7433692
>We have move passed the level of physics which can be observed,

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>>7433780
>stop developing physics
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>and start working on better machines for a while?

Because that's someone else's job. Normally some collaboration between experimentalists and several different brands of engineer.

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>>7433790
>And we get paid to do so

>> No.7433809

>>7433798
Grad student- and PHD-stipends, project salaries and post-doc positions' pay can support a comfortable-enough lifestyle in these parts of the world...

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>>7433809
That's my point. String theorists are literally welfare parasites.

>> No.7433845

>>7433833
>I don't like theorists theorising.

You're cute anon, retarded, but cute.

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>>7433833
Yes, I think about useless shit all day and I get paid to do it with your hard earned money. Make me stop, loser.

>> No.7433863

eventually people will catch on that you're useless and just making stuff up.

some peoples definition of fun isn't coincident with 'being useless'.

>>they will never know even the satisfaction of making a working machine