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NitpickLawyeryesterday at 9:31 PM1 replyview on HN

tbf, we've learned (ha!) more from smashing teeny tiny particles and "looking" at what comes out than from say 40 years of string theory. Sometimes doing stuff works, and the theory (hopefully) follows.


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olalondetoday at 10:45 AM

Same with electricity. We had Ohm's Law and were building electrical devices (e.g. telegraph, lightbulb) long before we discovered the electron.