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.
Austin Anderson
Why is Einstein mid tier? Did quantum theory seriously btfo relativity that much or is he too credited for the theory of relativity or is this just Veeky Forums typical contrarian shit.
Also why is hawking blacklisted
Grayson Edwards
It's not less significant, you are just comparing the whole history of humanity to 18 years
Nathan Miller
Why the fuck is Darwin shit tier
Christian White
Because modern math is fairy tale bullshit that nobody in the real world cares about.
Tyler Hughes
>Mendel and Darwin that low
Oliver Morales
>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
so eventually there will be a time where there is more material required to learn to make an advancement than is possible to learn in a lifetime.
Andrew Anderson
>21st century
user... The century isn't even a quarter over and ur already calling it off
Daniel Nguyen
Evan Hughes
Who made the most contributions to medicine?
Logan Thompson
Why is Darwin so low? He had a lot of really important insight into the phenomenon of evolution by both natural selection and genetic drift, which has paved the way for all of modern quantitative biological efforts.
Lucas Russell
>Galileo higher than Bayes
Fuck outta here
Aaron Jackson
>Why have 21st century scientists been much less significant than they were in the past?
False.
Jace Roberts
>Darwin is shit tier
Fuck you
Jaxson Cooper
WHERE IS BILL NYE ????
William Price
This is a Christian board.
John Robinson
There's no place left unmapped. Gone are the days where one man can just come up with a revolutionary, far-reaching insight. It's all slow incremental progress now with large research groups investing millions and decades into one tiny specialized application.
Jayden Miller
Got a chuckle
Gabriel Phillips
>lumping shit tier science communicators like Tyson in with actual scientists
Also, science is more collaborative these days. If the discoveries made by the people at CERN were made by one person, they'd be a literal God.
Luke Sanders
>Why have 21st century scientists been much less significant than they were in the past?
There are a LOT more than in the past, and much more specialized.
Cameron Sanders
this one is shit, tao on the same line as einstein and faraday fuckin wjat?
Jace Torres
>Is there a limit to how much scientific knowledge humanity can achieve?
I read this book about this civilization about the Moties where there was a limit.