• Uprise42@artemis.camp
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    1 year ago

    I meant more so that the first lightbulb didn’t. It had to go through changes and be refined to actually be usable. Maybe a lightbulb wasn’t the best example, but the concept is that the initial discovery is not usually impactful to most people but the inventions those discoveries lead to are whats important to the everyday person. The superconductor has multiple issues, and I doubt this material will find its way in anything in our lives. But if opens a new avenue of research which will lead to other materials which will find their ways into our lives.

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      1 year ago

      Of course the first light bulb didn’t change the world, but it paved the way. It was the start. This could be the same thing.