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robthebrewyesterday at 3:41 PM3 repliesview on HN

As someone who did blue sky chemistry research decades ago: is this completely pointless?


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criddellyesterday at 4:43 PM

How could anybody really know? You might need to travel pretty far into the future to say for sure.

pbhjpbhjyesterday at 6:14 PM

From a position of naivety, anything relating to electron dissociation sounds potentially useful for nano-components to use for computation, or for superconductivity?

thehappypmyesterday at 6:57 PM

Honestly, no. These weird states of matter have extremely different properties to ordinary matter. Weird properties is how we get things like superconductors, magnets, semiconductors, photovoltaics.. so strange state of matter with weird properties could very well produce some magic