I said battery, not TV or fridge. I was talking about small LiPo or Li+ batteries that can later be used in things like radios, phones, etc. Or lamps. I just think the flexibility should be an intrinsic property of this technology instead of forcing it into one niche.

Your analogy is faulty. You said going to the moon the first time needed to be done. Likewise, this is the first time we've been able to prove experimentally both the Higgs boson and dark matter. So it's like that first moon landing: a good thing by your own admission.

Actually, I have enormous faith. I have faith that the human mind will always outpace our technology, so we'll always have ideas to test before we have the capabilities to test them.

The universe is most probably NOT a sphere. It's more likely a looped dodecahedron. We just can only observe a sphere because there's a certain observable radius from our instruments. If we ever manage to image the boundary of the universe, we'd see its real shape.

That day will never happen. New hypotheses pop up all the time, and almost exclusively before they can be proven. Every time we prove a hypothesis, it will ALWAYS be something that was thought up years (or decades) ago.

We haven't done them before now, though. That's the thing. We've guessed they might be done, but haven't done them. It's like proving mathematically that it's possible to go to the moon, and then saying "We shouldn't be wasting time going to the moon if we already know we can do it!" The final proof is the best part!…

Yep!

Wrong science. That's quantum entanglement you're looking for.

Science is all about testing hypotheses. Finding the evidence to prove a hypothesis, thereby turning it into a rightful theory, is the most exciting part of the scientific method!

I meant '92. Mistyped, sorry.

I know that, but the original kid video was recorded in a way to make the conversation possible (saying things like, "What? Didn't quite catch that."), and that was in 1992. Yes, '92, I mistyped.

In no way am I trying to sound rude when I point out that a guy named Avram Piltch wrote a rant article against product names. Oh, the irony.

Weird that he did this in 1996 when the similar Doctor Who episode "Blink" didn't come out until post-2005. He really IS a Time Lord!

What I don't understand is why it's so limited. It's a waterwheel, that electricity can be used to charge a battery for multiple uses, so why use just a lightbulb?

You didn't? So then explain the politics in your first comment without admitting to starting a political debate. And perpetuating? Since when is "Trololol" perpetuating anything? You're the one who replied to that, sir. And clearly, you've accomplished your trolling goals since you've gotten me to bite, even if for a…

Trolololol.

It helps with the force that holds protons and neutrons together (the weak force), and it gives things mass. It's also the last particle that needed to be discovered outside the realm of gravity.

In the headline: Hawking* #corrections