Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard?

Re:Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard? by pixl97 on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @10:17AM (#46960845)

And your point is? Sometimes we make predictions that take hundreds of years to be turned into products.

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Re:Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard? by aleph_minus_one on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @10:31AM (#46961065)

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.

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Re:Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard? by pixl97 on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @11:33AM (#46962346)

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.

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