Progress in physics was/is also slow. People couldn't explain what the compass was doing for a few thousand years. Systematic futzing about and day dreaming was

Progress in physics was/is also slow. People couldn't explain what the compass was doing for a few thousand years. Systematic futzing about and day dreaming was required over multiple centuries. That is the norm when you are given a 3 inch chimp brain to grok the universe. The history of science shows us how much luck and blundering about in the darkness is required. Wish it was taught more.