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This one one of those granular issues where there is no single right answer. Given the forum, the best answer would be why has our given technology been shaped

This one one of those granular issues where there is no single right answer. Given the forum, the best answer would be why has our given technology been shaped to act as aristocratic tutors to us all? Further, is there enough room for any given Einstein in this dogmatic landscape?

ceejayoz 5y ago
It maybe less about dogma and more about the size of the remaining problems. A single Einstein can't go find the Higgs boson; you need a multi-national consortium willing to build a city-sized machine for it. You see the same in all sorts of fields. Inventing the telescope is neat. Inventing the JWST isn't something a single contributor is capable of.
- PaulHoule 5y ago
  One reason Einstein seems like such a genius was that this happened in his lifetime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddington_experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddington_experiment We have a much bigger physics community today but the closest thing to the above happening are these two events https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W_and_Z_bosons#Discovery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W_and_Z_bosons#Discovery and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_for_the_Higgs_boson#Discovery_of_new_boson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_for_the_Higgs_boson#Dis... with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino_oscillation#Observations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino_oscillation#Observati... as a distant third that has played out very slowly which is attributed to a very strange theorist character https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Pontecorvo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Pontecorvo There is public fascination with Steven Hawking, but Hawking's work has been confined to questions where the answers are unobservable (what's inside a black hole? what do you see in 10⁶⁴ years when stellar origin black holes start to pop?)

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This one one of those granular issues where there is no single right answer. Given the forum, the best answer would be why has our given technology been shaped

by mtkhaos 5y ago

ceejayoz 5y ago
It maybe less about dogma and more about the size of the remaining problems. A single Einstein can't go find the Higgs boson; you need a multi-national consortium willing to build a city-sized machine for it. You see the same in all sorts of fields. Inventing the telescope is neat. Inventing the JWST isn't something a single contributor is capable of.
- PaulHoule 5y ago
  One reason Einstein seems like such a genius was that this happened in his lifetime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddington_experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddington_experiment We have a much bigger physics community today but the closest thing to the above happening are these two events https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W_and_Z_bosons#Discovery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W_and_Z_bosons#Discovery and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_for_the_Higgs_boson#Discovery_of_new_boson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_for_the_Higgs_boson#Dis... with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino_oscillation#Observations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino_oscillation#Observati... as a distant third that has played out very slowly which is attributed to a very strange theorist character https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Pontecorvo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Pontecorvo There is public fascination with Steven Hawking, but Hawking's work has been confined to questions where the answers are unobservable (what's inside a black hole? what do you see in 10⁶⁴ years when stellar origin black holes start to pop?)