Re:CERN approves plans for a $23B, 62-mile long super-collider
by dekhn on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @10:38AM
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photoelectric effect in 1921 was definitely not blue-sky research with no practical applications; it was one of the core problems in physics at the time.
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Re:CERN approves plans for a $23B, 62-mile long super-collider
by throw0101a on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @11:51AM
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> it was one of the core problems in physics at the time.
What were the specific "practical" problems that investigating and figuring it out that were solved?
Re:CERN approves plans for a $23B, 62-mile long super-collider
by dekhn on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @04:15PM
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photomultiplier tubes. At the time the effect was discovered, PE was recognized experimentally (and exploited), but unexplained, and once it was, development of PMTs (critical to a wide range of practical technologies) was greatly sped up. This led to high quality television cameras not long after...