Shiny New Kid said:

. said:

Everytime I hear

SO WHUT? HOW DOES THIS AFFECT ME?
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I think of two things.

(1) The consumer paradigm could not be more baked into contempory culture. As if everything is there for your narcissistic benefit.

(2) Like your Iphone? It was made possible by a boatload of quantum mechanics. Including a ton of esoteric discoveries in the 50s and 60s that people had no practical application for then.

If anything, this discovery proves that math rules everything. If it can be mathematically described and mathematically relatable to known axioms, it -fucking- exists and it's only a matter of time before it's proven as a factual discovery. That's the beauty of the standard model, and the beauty of this discovery. Among other gems.

The CERN announcement was incredibly important, and it's sad that scientific illiteracy is so bad in the US that people don't even comprehend a simple reason to be a little bit humble about it. Instead you get lots of

WHO CARES? THIS STUFF IS USELESS TO THE AVERAGE PERSON. WE SHOULD GIVE THAT MONEY BACK TO THE TAXPAYER! CANCEL THE FUNDING FOR THE SUPERCONDUCTING SUPER COLLIDER. ITS WORTHLESS!
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I think this is the first potd I've issued.