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It's shocking how in a century (say from 1850 to 1950) we went from basically knowing nothing to basically knowing everything.
by QuesnayJr 6y ago
It's shocking how in a century (say from 1850 to 1950) we went from basically knowing nothing to basically knowing everything.
- haunter 6y ago>basically knowing everything How bold! I'm pretty sure someone make a comment like yours too in ~2150 reading articles from today.
- pfdietz 6y agoHe's incorrect in that the Standard Model firmed up in the 1970s. But since then, fundamental physics has been nearly stagnant. More broadly, the era of exponentially growing knowledge of the basic foundations of the universe cannot last long. Historically it will be seen as highly anomalous. Most of history will be one of scientific stagnation.
- weregiraffe 6y agoWhy not? You don't know how much knowledge the universe contains.
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- pfdietz 6y agoAny exponential growth process runs into fundamental limits soon enough. This is as true in physics as it is in any other field. Accelerators are close to their practical limits, for example.