Re:Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard?
by pixl97 on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @10:17AM
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And your point is? Sometimes we make predictions that take hundreds of years to be turned into products.
Re:Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard?
by aleph_minus_one on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @10:31AM
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My point is that you shouldn't believe in marketing claims that are obviously too good to be true, like
> The second we're able to understand and capture this [cold fusion] energy, money literally doesn't exist. Infinite energy means infinite free energy, which would also abolish money from a fundamental market value perspective.
Re:Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard?
by pixl97 on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @11:33AM
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I mean obviously this statement is false as we live in a finite section of the visible universe.
This said beyond the marketing there is a reality that if cold fusion did show up that there is a singularity event that occurs that making predictions past that point will almost always fail as the world would change very rapidly.
Similar statements were already claimed about nuclear fission power plants in the 70s.