Serendipitous Scientific Discoveries
The cluster focuses on the awe and fascination with an unexpected scientific discovery, debating its value as a breakthrough despite lacking immediate practical applications and emphasizing serendipity and the potential for future impacts from basic research.
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This seems like one of those "hmmm, that's odd" moments that could lead to a scientific breakthrough.
Makes me wonder about the unintended positive side effects of new discoveries.
While Scientific discovery would never stop, a milestone like this would be significant. And it would warrant awe.
It is fascinating. I'm not imagining scifi application or anything, this discovery in itself is fascinating.
What an utterly delightful and eminently understandable presentation of a complex subject!I know that it would take decades or centuries to gather enough data to make discoveries. But I wonder if one day a scientist will be looking at these results and see something that makes them think "that's odd..." And suddenly our understanding of the universe is turned upside down yet again!
What if some scientist has a breakthrough thought while reading this?
Any great discoveries you mightn’t have made otherwise?
It's amazing how many things are discovered this way.
With the history of unusual ways things have been discovered in science, I'm not sure if that is sarcasm.
If it can't be applied for anything useful, was it really a scientific breakthrough?