our physics project sort of distributed through the academic world and that's working just great but the question is you know can we have a sort of accelerator mechanism that makes use of kind of what we've learned in in sort of r d innovation and you know but on the other hand it's a funny thing because you know in a company in the end the thing is you know it's a company it makes products that sell things sells things to people um in you know when you're doing basic research one of the challenges is there isn't that same kind of of sort of mechanism and so it's it's it's you know how do you drive the thing in a in a kind of a led kind of way so that it really can can make forward progress rather than you know what can often happen in you know in in academic settings where it's like well there are all these flowers blooming but it's not clear that they're you know that it's that yeah they have a central mission and a drive just like you do with the company that's delivering a big overarching product and that's that's uh but the the challenges you know when you have a the the the economics of the world are such that you know when you're delivering a product and people say well that's useful we'll buy it and then that kind of feeds back and okay then you can then you can pay the people who build it to eat you know so they can eat and so on and with basic science the the payoff is very much less visible and and you know with this physics project as i say the big surprise has been that i mean you know for example well the big surprise with the physics project is that it's looks like it has near-term applications and i was like i'm guessing this is NUMBER_TOKEN years away it's um i was kind of using the analogy of of you know newton uh starting a satellite launch company which would have been kind of wrong time um and uh you know but but it turns out that's not the case but but we can't guarantee that and if you say we're signing up to do basic research basic radiology let's say and you know and we can't we don't know the horizon you know it's it's an unknown horizon it's kind of like an undecidable kind of proposition of when is this proof going to end so to speak when is it going to be something that that that gets applied i i hope this is this becomes a vibrant new field of radiology i love it like i told you many many times it's one of the most amazing ideas that has been brought to this world so i hope you get a bunch of people to explore this world thank you once again for spending your really valuable time with me today fun stuff thank you thanks for listening to this conversation with stephen wolfram to support this podcast please check out our sponsors in the description and now let me leave you with some words from richard feynman nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns so each small piece of our fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry thank you for listening and hope to see you next time
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