Is there a limit to how much scientific knowledge humanity can achieve? Why have 21st century scientists been much less significant than they were in the past?
Is there a limit to how much scientific knowledge humanity can achieve...
Christopher Murphy
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Jason Miller
Our education and academic systems stifle original thought.
Robert Wright
Its mostly groups and universities now I guess
Mason Miller
It's just an illusion.
Define "significant". If "significant" = "how many people have heard of this guy / how much do media cover this guy", then many "significant" scientists are the ones that came up with stuff most people learn in a normal schools. Everybody has heard of Pythagoras (for a^2+b^1=c^2), because its simple stuff that's taught in schools. Nowadays scientific fields are improved at a much greater rate than ever before, also by single persons, but those improvements are complex and specialized. No average joe knows the names "Grothendieck" or "Hilbert", even though they improved/extended math at least as much as Pythagoras did.
Henry Wright
18th year of this century.
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Owen Kelly
>great tier
>planck
planck was garbo. he was a flake who came up with really great discoveries then bent over and let einstein buttream him
also his doctorate thesis was embarrassing. he got lucky that it ended up being revolutionary
Joseph Taylor
>Is there a limit to how much scientific knowledge humanity can achieve?
there is, but we're not going to reach it
Nicholas Nguyen
Why is Slave Knight Gael is based tier?
Brayden Howard
Maybe because the more material there is, the more you have to learn to become sufficiently good at a certain field to improve it or to anything significant in it
Ethan Powell
>Dissemination equals innovation.
Most of our books and knowledge and even goddam dna sequences are being copyrighted. You can go to jail for doing science.
Think of it in terms of mefia. An immortal corp. owns superman. Only they can make superman movies. But if superman were in the public domain, we could get a million superman films. Most would be garbage, but a few would be pure gems.