Skip to main content
Astronomy

You are not logged in. Your edit will be placed in a queue until it is peer reviewed.

We welcome edits that make the post easier to understand and more valuable for readers. Because community members review edits, please try to make the post substantially better than how you found it, for example, by fixing grammar or adding additional resources and hyperlinks.

10
  • $\begingroup$ This reminds me of Robert R. Wilson's famous speech about the SSC. $\endgroup$
    – HDE 226868 ♦
    Commented Apr 1, 2015 at 23:07
  • 1
    $\begingroup$ Then if Astronomy continues to inform Physics, and Physics changes our world, it has an economical gain, though it isnt easily or at all measurable, doesnt it? $\endgroup$
    – Pablo
    Commented Jul 19, 2017 at 13:57
  • 1
    $\begingroup$ @Pablo -- Suppose physicists pinpoint what dark energy is, and suppose that pinpointing results in zero economical gain, ever. Does that mean the effort was worthless and should never have been pursued? (That's a rhetorical question. My answer is NO.) $\endgroup$
    – David Hammen
    Commented Jul 19, 2017 at 14:12
  • 2
    $\begingroup$ A comment on "This resulted in a change to the standard model." This is quite an understatement! The standard model predicts massless neutrinos. That neutrinos have mass means there is physics beyond the standard model, which is huuuuge. $\endgroup$
    – AtmosphericPrisonEscape
    Commented Mar 29, 2018 at 13:00
  • 1
    $\begingroup$ @HDE226868 -- Wilson's speech was about the National Accelerator Laboratory (later Fermilab), not the SSC. (Otherwise, good point!) $\endgroup$
    – Peter Erwin
    Commented Mar 31, 2018 at 12:00