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		bluGill 21 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Approaching 50 Years of String Theory what didn't se develop because those people were working on string theory? That is an unanswerable question. It is also the important question.

mtoner23 21 days ago [–]

Compared to all the other useless endeavors we send our brightest minds to work on (optimizing ad sales, high frequency trading, crypto) I'd say physics research has the highest chance of being useful

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