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Thank you for confirming your thinly veiled bias.
What exactly do researchers do?
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Thank you for confirming your thinly veiled bias.
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I will be more direct this time around.
You don't know anything, don't judge others on things you know nothing about. You don't even get to see what she put on the computer. They are not being paid by their physical output like moving logs, they are employed for their IQ and intellect, which you are not qualified for and doesn't sound like you ever would be tbh. They can sit there are think (you call it daydream) and it would be more productive than your day's, week, month of life's work to humankind.
Your research in to what researchers do is not going to well jsmoke, I think this is because you've made your conclusion before completing the research. It's a fail I'm afraid 
But on the bright side you can learn lots from failure so go you
But on the bright side you can learn lots from failure so go you
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Take a field like polymer chemistry, which is just a subset of the entire field of chemistry... The nature of polymers in terms of the monomeric building blocks is very, very large, couple this with other parameters like chain-length/molecular weight , branching, cross-linking, mechanism of synthesis, copolymers (random and block), functionalization etc. basically means that there are an infinite number of possible 'new polymers' to be discovered. You can parameterise most fields of discovery in a similar way. Admittedly not all combinations will generate something favourable or useful and we should be moving to more digital design in these sorts of areas, but the amount of possibilities for creating something 'novel' is effectively infinite.
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Don't bother, he doesn't understand it hence it's not work.
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of course it is, phd researchers never have to leverage personal assets in their projects, everything is provided for them and they get paid a lot of money by the government....
except the ones on industrially funded contracts, or charity funded projects, or via eu funding.
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Red rag to a jsmoke bull right there.
i knew someone was gonna get triggered by the notion that sometimes money came from the eu into the uk......
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka” but “That's funny...” —Isaac Asimov (1920–1992)
Science will never be over, there will always be a new question to answer. Some science leads directly to new things and applications, but some of it just answers the question why/how. Why is the biggest reason for humans success. If we never asked whats over that mountain or what happens if i rub this together we'd still be sitting in caves eating raw meat.
Science will never be over, there will always be a new question to answer. Some science leads directly to new things and applications, but some of it just answers the question why/how. Why is the biggest reason for humans success. If we never asked whats over that mountain or what happens if i rub this together we'd still be sitting in caves eating raw meat.
People have been saying that sort of thing for a while now. We don't have a complete understanding of everything in the universe, so there's plenty of stuff left to research.
Some papers are dressing up a bias and there's a more widespread problem with a bias towards positive results, but nearly all of it furthers science in some way. It might not be in any way that's useful yet, but extra knowledge is extra knowledge and who knows what it might be useful to know in the future?
One I found out recently is the question of how old the universe is. It appeared to be known, but a different approach to answering the question that was expected to confirm the result yielded a slightly different result. Both approaches seem to be correct. So now some people are researching the researching. The OP might well ask why it matters. How can we know whether or not it matters if we don't know what the answer is? Will finding the reason for the discrepency result in knowledge about how the universe works that can be applied in a useful way? Maybe. Maybe not. We can't know if the answer will have practical applications if we don't know what the answer is. We also can't know if the answer will have practical applications when combined with other things discovered in the future.
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The universe? yeah completed it mate.
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University researchers are a huge earner for such establishments, which is one reason academia are so anti Brexit, they receive massive funding and I suspect a lot of it gets diverted to high living, expensive pseudo holidays and first class travel for the Deans and suchlike.
The UK is one of the largest recipients of research funding in the EU. Over the period 2007 – 2013 the UK received €8.8 billion out of a total of €107 billion expenditure on research, development and innovation in EU Member States, associated and third countries. This represents the fourth largest share in the EU.
The UK is one of the largest recipients of research funding in the EU. Over the period 2007 – 2013 the UK received €8.8 billion out of a total of €107 billion expenditure on research, development and innovation in EU Member States, associated and third countries. This represents the fourth largest share in the EU.