>>11362032>Which business uses it to produce economic profit?Which business uses NMR to produce economic profit? None of them, until they did. Antimatter? None of them, until they did. Group theory? None of them, until they did. The internet? None of them, until they did. Stochastic calculus? None of them, until they did. Computational chemistry software? None of them, until they did. Number theory? None of them, until they did. The idea that basic research is only worth doing if we already know there is a direct economic incentive from it would mean basic research is never performed, because it is impossible to know the economic value of undiscovered phenomena.
