On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 spudboy100 via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
*> I wonder if there are aspects of physics and mathematics, that are > "unimportant," both, materially, and conceptually, in the past, or now, > today, that will become important much later onward?? As when Fermi > produced the idea of the neutrino, in 1932,* > It was Wolfgang Pauli who predicted the neutrino not Fermi although it was Fermi who gave the particle its name, and it was in 1930 not 1932. Neutrinos were not detected experimentally until 1956. > * >which in Depression times, were useless, to most physicists,* > I don't see what the Depression has to do with it, and many physicist thought Pauli was probably wrong but nobody thought the idea was useless. > * > Maybe the Platonic is something inherent in the Universe, such as an > "operating system" is to laptops, and I-phones? We just find it currently, > impossible to 'touch." Spin this conversation to Dark Matter, and Dark > Energy, and we have another example.* > Both Dark Matter and Dark Energy were detected experimentally, nobody predicted them theoretically. But non-physical calculations have never been detected and there is no theoretical basis to think they might exist. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
