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light_triadtoday at 1:01 AM0 repliesview on HN

There's still huge gaps in our understanding: quantum gravity, dark matter, what happens before planck time, thermodynamics of life and many others.

Part of the problem is that building bigger colliders, telescopes, and gravitational wave detectors requires huge resources and very powerful computers to store and crunch all the data.

We're cutting research instead of funding it right now and sending our brightest researchers to Europe and China...