Sanal, how is research supporting fundamental physics, chemistry and math going to solve this problem? There has been eons of research on these topics at the fundamental level. John Erdos spent his lifetime understanding conjugations of prime numbers and other fundamental math concepts—I understand that these concepts ultimately do have application but that is the purpose to apply them and use them to solve real-world problems.

There is in my opinion a fundamental gap between a lot of “pure’ research and solving real-world problems. Maybe some peoples brains don’t work this way (i.e. towards application) but that is the reason for the research; to benefit humanity.

I understand you are talking about the specifics but they need to start somewhere and it seems based o this research that they are getting somewhere.