It’s actually kind of heartening, lasers because before they were invented, their only real antecedents in science fiction were things like rayguns and heatrays and what not. I’m probably not even scratching the surface here.įund theory and fundamental science research. CDs, DVDs, printing, fast internet, laser etching for making computer chips, laser eye surgery, spectroscopy, LIDAR measurements of weather patterns, barcode scanners, cooling atomic clocks, nuclear fusion, microscopy, LED technology and materials research. Since then they’re revolutionised communications and SO many parts of technology. When lasers were discovered they were called “a solution without a problem”, noone had any idea what to use them for. All of science is connected and useful because it enhances our understanding of the universe You hear politicians question why we spend money on science studying insect wings and then decades later that research gets used by NASA for the most efficient way to fold/unfold solar panels on spacecraft. This is what’s so faulty with our short sighted coverage of scientific discoveries.
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