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I don't get it. I have a research degree in physics, and if AI made major progress towards the big open questions (e.g. nature of dark matter) or managed to come up with a much cheaper way (or any way at all) to test a theory of quantum gravity, I'd be super happy. At the moment the research frontier in high energy physics looks pretty bleak in that it appears like the scale of construction and energies required are too high to reasonably achieve many more big breakthroughs in my lifetime. What makes mathematics so special that the entire field is distressed when their big open questions get resolved?

If a power source is profitable on its own, it can be financed by private investors. If it is unprofitable, it needs to be financed at least in part by the state, so it would come at the cost of the taxpayer.

> The discovery is somewhat overshadowed by accusations of skulduggery from Tristan Buckmaster [...]

I think you should not say that. Buckmaster did only state his version of events and was very clear on that he did not make any accusations at all.

To quote from his statement pdf:

> I am not accusing anyone of anything.