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> Technological progress mostly relies on discoveries made in physics. I couldn't disagree more. Take the Haber process as a counterexample from chemistry, or
by OopsCriticality 11y ago
> Technological progress mostly relies on discoveries made in physics.
I couldn't disagree more. Take the Haber process as a counterexample from chemistry, or vaccinations as a counterexample from medicine.
- mojuba 11y agoMedicine is not technology. Materials are, but in the end chemistry is just a subsidiary of physics.
- OopsCriticality 11y agoBy that logic, physics is merely an ersatz subsidiary of mathematics, therefore technological progress mostly relies on discoveries made in mathematics. Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/435/ https://xkcd.com/435/
- selimthegrim 11y agoReally? Such as when Mary-Beth Ruskai had to talk to the quantum chemists to solve inequalities foundational to quantum information today, or when Longuet-Higgins discovered the importance of geometric phase in quantum mechanics? Or when Alden Mead argued the Planck length[0] was on the atomic scale? [0] http://ctpweb.lns.mit.edu/physics_today/phystoday/Alden-Repsonse323.pdf http://ctpweb.lns.mit.edu/physics_today/phystoday/Alden-Reps...
- arbitrage 11y ago"Technology is the collection of techniques, skills, methods and processes used in the production of goods or services or in the accomplishment of objectives." (from Wikipedia) More things are technology than you seem to think. For instance, technology isn't only things.