Looking Ahead in Wonder: Telescopes at the Cosmic Frontier
Looking Ahead in Wonder: Telescopes at the Cosmic Frontier
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DOI：
10.1007/978-1-4614-7813-3_11
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2013
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G. Rhee
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作者：
G. Rhee
天文学是一门大科学，主要观测设施的费用高达数亿美元。人们如何证明将这些支出用于主要由好奇心驱动的基础科研是合理的？荷兰物理学家亨德里克·卡西米尔（Hendrik Casimir）认为，源自基础研究的创新对经济有巨大影响。他暗示，如果没有基础研究，这些创新就不会发生。
Astronomy is big science, the costs of major observing facilities run into the hundreds of millions of dollars. How does one justify such expenditures into basic scientific research which is mainly motivated by curiosity?The Dutch physicist Hendrik Casimir has argued that innovations originating in fundamental research have a huge impact on the economy. He implies that these innovations would not have happened were it not for basic research.