Almost every fundamental new discovery in physics so far has yielded great advances in technology. The exception seems to be general relativity - probably because gravity is such a weak force, it's difficult to make consumer items out of it.<\/p>\n
I like to wonder what new technologies we could hope (in our wildest dreams) to obtain with a complete theory of physics. It might take a while, because we don't even know of any practical way of even getting experimental evidence for a grand unified theory so far, let alone make technology from those experimental results.<\/p>\n
One possibility is new particles. Many promising theories predict various new particles. Unfortunately most particles other than the ones that make us up tend to be very short-lived and therefore don't yield any new materials. But if we do find a new long lived particle (and it doesn't cause a phase transition that swallows us all up) there is a possibility of new materials heavier, lighter, stronger or with better information storage abilities than the ones we have.<\/p>\n
Another possibility is gravitational engineering. Particularly if we can find a way to violate the weak energy condition, we might be able to build stable, traversable wormholes, time machines and other such time\/space abominations.<\/p>\n
Even more far-fetched (but also possible) would be more ways to manipulate matter and energy, as in The Trigger<\/a> and Ed stories<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Almost every fundamental new discovery in physics so far has yielded great advances in technology. The exception seems to be general relativity - probably because gravity is such a weak force, it's difficult to make consumer items out of it. I like to wonder what new technologies we could hope (in our wildest dreams) to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":817,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions\/817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}