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This article leads to an obvious question: does Eroom’s Law apply as much to the sciences as a whole as it does to pharmaceutical drug discovery? Are we seeing
by pja 6y ago
This article leads to an obvious question: does Eroom’s Law apply as much to the sciences as a whole as it does to pharmaceutical drug discovery? Are we seeing the same dynamics play out in both cases?
- captainbland 6y agoI think this has to be the main driver of it - it's just new, valuable scientific information is getting harder to discover in a number of important fields. It's likely the difficulty and expense of building a working experimental fusion reactor today is relatively much higher than building an experimental fission reactor when they were still being worked on. There's just less (relative) low hanging fruit.
- XorNot 6y agoWell also that a fission reactor is so simple to build that nature accidentally made one in a swamp in South Africa a few hundred thousand years ago. It's not killing everyone around it that's the challenge.
- willis936 6y agoNature also makes quite a few natural fusion reactors. The challenge is doing it without gravitational confinement.