Is it possible for a single man to master all science? And if so, what happens next?
Is it possible for a single man to master all science? And if so, what happens next?
Matthew Cooper
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David James
define "master"
Ian Rivera
No. I like to think academics are comparable to sports. If science is mma then you physically couldn't master all of it because there are different weight classes. You couldn't be a heavyweight and a welterweight at the same time.
Bentley Brooks
Knowledge of the universe is practically infinite. You will never "master" it.
James Long
top-tier understanding
many fighters go through different weights. it's possible to conquer many different weights at different times.
obviously not 'everything'. just current knowledge
Julian Stewart
Thomas Young style?
Jaxson Lopez
Assuming you had a perfect photographic memory and could memorize anything after reading it once, then even if you spent every waking hour studying for 100 years would would still not make it through the entirety of human understanding.
The main problem is that more than 1 days worth of new scientific papers are published every day. You would never be completely current in your understanding.
Jonathan Wood
Yeah but not at the same time. That's my point, you'll never have it all mastered at the same time.
Liam Martinez
Yes, I have done so myself, ask me anything.
Hunter Thomas
Yep, his name is God and he is real.
Xavier Lewis
Why not? I'm unsure how being top tier in biology would stop you from being top tier in physics.
Colton Price
>it's possible to conquer many different weights at different times.
Connor McGregor conquered two of them and that's unprecedented in the UFC.
You don't have the time or the resources to make state-of-the-art publications in material physics, particle physics, theoretical physics, astronomy, inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, biochemistry, bacteriology, virology, veterinary medicine, and human medicine.
Especially when you will have two PhDs in virology who disagree with each other.
Anthony Richardson
Watson
Michael Watson
No. There are categories within categories of science you'd need to master.
Gabriel Thomas
Create new fields of science to study and master
Caleb Roberts
Watch an episode of Rick and Morty.
Kayden Wood
Yes get a phd in chemistry, physics and biology
Angel Lopez
>tfw the hardest part of science is picking a field.
Austin Williams
Does one man have to learn everything to understand how everything works?
I think that at some point one man could understand all basics and link each field together.
Tyler Mitchell
Not 'completely' but I assume you don't mean that.
Really good at nearly everything? ( You just simply cannot be asked a question in which you can't reply with a very informative and well thought out answer. )
Yes. But you'd have to find a way to prolong your life, since simply learning something will not be so straightforward anymore and how you view things will start to play a factor. In other words, experience. One human life span will not be enough.
Gavin Perez
Haha a single man can't even master a single scientific field.
Oliver Clark
No. Not even Von Neumann, who was both a genius and a polymath, came close to it. Scientific knowledge is so deep and complex these days that I doubt even most computers could store and process such amount of data.
Nathan Adams
>>tfw the hardest part of science is picking a field.
>tfw the hardest part is picking science.
Gavin Miller
Define 'science' and 'master'.
If "mastering" means having comprehensive practical and theoretical knowledge and being up to date on recent developments (which it should), it's probably impossible.
If "science" isn't just limited to 'biology, physics, chemistry and maths' but also incorporates every single subfield like protein dynamics, dendrochronology, theoretical low-temperature physics and so on it's even more impossible.
Isaac Lopez
>mfw when i'm close to mastering all of science but now i have to master poli sci and social sciences