The Emotional Arch of the Scientific Process

The idea that you could find out that the universe was going to last forever. The fact that for the first five years, we have not yet found a single supernova is a really good example of the kind of thing that emotional science can be. One of the real tricks of science is the ability to stick with something long enough to get an answer. Most things take way longer than anything that most humans are willing to do just in the day to day life. You need all this extra ability to fool yourself into thinking that you're getting somewhere.