[lamontcg]

> finding things we already knew.

we didn't know that before it was published.

we could have been sitting around now talking about breaking new experimental results from LHCb that call into question the standard model, you have to actually do the work to check. and you have to check a lot of unexciting results in order to find one which is groundbreaking (which is actually what the authors of the LK-99 paper claim to have done over decades before finding this one material).

[astrange]

> you have to actually do the work to check

How many billions of dollars do you spend on colliders that don't disprove the Standard Model before stopping?

[lamontcg]

And apparently I'm the one that hates science here because I think the side-show around LK-99 is ridiculous.

[astrange]

I think there's a lot of other science people could be doing, maybe even in physics, but not in giant particle colliders or string theory.