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zchrykngtoday at 2:19 PM2 repliesview on HN

Please enlighten us how purely theoretical mathematical constructs, that are impossible to test, help us understand anything about our universe.


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Eremtoday at 2:28 PM

Imaginary numbers are purely theoretical, but they turn out very helpful in almost every engineering discipline

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dwrobertstoday at 3:56 PM

Lots of science is impossible to test practically for hundreds of years before it is actually experimentally verified

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