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Applications. ive always thought of this basic research trying to understand the universe as one of the most hopeful things that humans do. we just want to know. >> anthony: whats at the other end of that? wouldnt you kind of like to know? at a time when science is held in open contempt, when painfully acquired data is actually being deleted from computers if it conflicts with preconceived policies, these guys are looking at some deep stuff. where do we come from? how does it all work? how far c...

>> dan: its true that there is an increased skepticism of objective reality these days, but this science stands on thousands of years of human, accrued understanding. >> anthony: whos interested? like whos most likely to benefit? >> dan: theres no immediate answer to that question. >> anthony: but youre asking basic questions about the fundamental nature of matter, time, space. surely it was people asking those kinds of questions that led directly to technologies that we take for granted now. >>...

Accrued understanding. >> anthony: whos interested? like whos most likely to benefit? >> dan: theres no immediate answer to that question. >> anthony: but youre asking basic questions about the fundamental nature of matter, time, space. surely there were people asking those kinds of questions that led directly to technologies that we take for granted now. >> dan: thats right. i mean theres no question. we have to solve hard problems to do these things and when we solve them they have other appli...

Thousands of years of human, accrued understanding. >> anthony: whos interested? like whos most likely to benefit? >> dan: theres no immediate answer to that question. >> anthony: but youre asking basic questions about the fundamental nature of matter, time, space. surely there were people asking those kinds of questions that led directly to technologies that we take for granted now. >> dan: thats right. i mean theres no question. we have to solve hard problems to do these things and when we sol...

>> anthony: whos interested? like whos most likely to benefit? >> dan: theres no immediate answer to that question. >> anthony: but youre asking basic questions about the fundamental nature of matter, time, space. surely there were people asking those kinds of questions that led directly to technologies >> dan: thats right. i mean theres no question. we have to solve hard problems to do these things and when we solve them they have other applications. ive always thought of this basic research tr...

The results. that is not to say they had an impact on the results. the president won fair and square. it was an attack on america. those are the words of republican senator john mccain. two, his open contempt for the investigation followed up by the fact he demanded loyalty of the fbi director who is responsible for that probe. demanded loyalty of a person who runs an independent agency who gets a ten-year term so he can be independent of politics or the political party of a president. we must f...