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There will be no Copernicus if everybody just studies epicycles. E.g. there are massive resources put into the desperate WIMP hunt that could be used for finding new theories.



I don't see how those resources are fungible with each other.


Research funding is very competitive and scarce.


Building a physics machine, and thinking about how the equations might work, are so very different.

Does the latter even get funding?


Of course. It's called theoretical physics.




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