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Dr.Cajetan Coelho
Congratulations to scientists Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger.
starpunk
And a big congratulations to all three. Bravo!
lostrune2
When Zeilinger was first showing his research of quantum mechanics to the media in the 1990s, people were asking him what use is there for this - and even he admitted he wasn't sure
And now a couple of decades later, people are seeing it as the future, including quantum computing
Just goes to show that just because a short-sighted can't immediately see a use for some new knowledge, doesn't mean other people years later can't take that knowledge and make use of it
That's how fundamental research works - ya take that knowledge and ya combine that with other knowledge, and ya come up with something to use that ya wouldn't have been able prior without that fundamental knowledge
starpunk
Copernicus built his modern solar system theory based on observations Arab astronomers made and wrote centuries before. Even though he was wrong in assuming that the Sun is the center of the universe, more advances in astronomy were built upon this foundation, which was set by the Arabian astronomers, and which was set by many others before around the world over the previous millennia. That's progress.