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'Cosmic radio' detector could discover dark matter within 15 years

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34 points rbanffy | 1 comments | 17 Apr 25 12:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.401s | source
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fasteddie31003 ◴[19 Apr 25 16:03 UTC] No.43737296[source]▶
Am I wrong to assume that science that is harder to prove will have less impact on human wellbeing? Electricity is easy to run experiments on and prove, meaning humans can manipulate it for our benefits easy. However, the Higgs Boson was extremely difficult to prove and I see no way that it could ever benefit humanity's wellbeing. Now how could humans improve our wellbeing by manipulating dark matter?
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1. neom ◴[19 Apr 25 18:46 UTC] No.43738508[source]▶
This is a weird thought, but maybe it depends on how far you allow yourself to imagine, and what "acceptable imagining" is? I can imagine a few things that Higgs may end up being useful for, sure, they're "insane" or "wild" or "100% not how things could work you're nuts" - but I can still see ways it could benefit humanity if I was right about my imagination, and I'm not going to bother stopping my imagination.