Timeline for Is there any practical use for astronomy?
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| Aug 2, 2021 at 12:33 | comment | added | Stack Exchange Supports Israel | @tuomas that would be an externality | |
| Mar 31, 2018 at 12:00 | comment | added | Peter Erwin | @HDE226868 -- Wilson's speech was about the National Accelerator Laboratory (later Fermilab), not the SSC. (Otherwise, good point!) | |
| Mar 29, 2018 at 13:00 | comment | added | AtmosphericPrisonEscape | 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. | |
| Mar 28, 2018 at 19:27 | comment | added | tuomas | Parks do have economic impact - on the property value of surrounding properties (see e.g. actrees.org/files/Research/parks_on_property_values.pdf), which, depending on your local tax scheme, may pay for (part of) its maintenance via e.g. property tax | |
| Sep 21, 2017 at 4:23 | comment | added | jpmc26 | "...or of your local neighborhood public park where you enjoy weekend barbecues." I, for one, consider family gatherings to be quite practical. ;) | |
| Jul 19, 2017 at 14:12 | comment | added | David Hammen | @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.) | |
| Jul 19, 2017 at 13:57 | comment | added | Pablo | 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? | |
| Apr 2, 2015 at 21:07 | comment | added | pela | Very nice discussion. | |
| Apr 2, 2015 at 15:47 | vote | accept | Scottie | ||
| Apr 2, 2015 at 10:13 | comment | added | userLTK | Nice post. Dark Matter and Dark energy are great examples. Neutrinos too, and I'll add, Einstein's general relativity was tested and verified by astronomy as well. And Neutron star mass and black hole mass give us some clues on high energy particle physics. The theorized "Quark star" which has never been observed for example. | |
| Apr 1, 2015 at 23:20 | history | edited | David Hammen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
DYAC! How in the world did it correct a misspelled "neighborhood" into "resounding"?
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| Apr 1, 2015 at 23:07 | comment | added | HDE 226868♦ | This reminds me of Robert R. Wilson's famous speech about the SSC. | |
| Apr 1, 2015 at 22:49 | history | answered | David Hammen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |