Peaked in the 19th Century
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Scienists lokey fell off
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they didn't fall off, they're just busy doing dumb shit
we need to start thinking abt how we wanna explore other solar systems and shit
you better be discovering the physics of event horizon to be calling it dumb shit
USA politician level of demented he clearly doesn't think its actually boiling🙏
global warming is not at "boiling" point dawg
we are heating up but boiling would imply ts is irreversible and imminent doomsday or something
we do NOT need to worry about discovering more of space when theres crisis' happening on THIS planet
space directly benefits people globally through its technological innovations
freeze drying, GPS, satellite internet and TV, climate monitoring systems, and more
and uses a fraction of most national budgets too
what are they supposed to do when researchers in renewable energy and literal cures for cancer just get shotgun blasted in the face by Definitely Not The Federal Government Haha
Scientists clearly peaked in the 20th Century
Albert Einstein
Werner Heisenberg
Marie Curie
Niels Bohr
Louis de Broglie
Max Planck
Wolfgang Pauli
Erwin Schrodinger
Paul Dirac
Linus Pauling
All revolutionized their field. Hell I'd even say the 18th Century may have peaked higher than the 19th Century purely off the contributions of Newton Lagrange and Liebniz and the development of Newtonian and Lagrangian Mechanics
edit: tbf I am incredibly biased towards physicists because I'm an engineer
scientists havent peaked in the past, we have just stopped caring or become ignorant of the insane progress we have made in the past few decades
modern microchips alone are a marvel of engineering and technology and the scientists behind them are pretty much unknown to the general population
what physicists are doing at cern is also cutting edge and is revolutionizing our understanding of the quantum universe
yeah people just dont really pay attention to what goes on because a lot of it is either really high level or just abstracted
Hollon i'm currently in uni tryna be one. Lemme come back to this in a few years
It is because the age of solo scientist discoveries is over. Scientific discoveries and crazy inventions are due to the contributions of many many scientists rather than just one.
Tbf, it's always kind of been like that, it's just that the primary investigators always got the full credit. The reason we say Watson and Crick discovered the structure of DNA and not Watson, Crick, Franklin, Stokes, Wilkins, and Wilson is because the paper that got famous had James Watson and Francis Crick's name on it. Newton is called the father of calculus even though it was combined, separate efforts of Newton and Leibniz that contributed to our modern understanding of calculus because some English scientific academy (that Newton was the head of by the way) said that Newton did it first.
Its even more extreme now. You can confidently say that Einstein discovered the idea of relativity and Newton discovered Newtons Laws. But for example your average CERN or Nuclear Fusion experiment involves hundreds or even thousands of scientists, engineers, etc. This large scale contribution really started in the late 19th century (mainly because of faster communication), but it wasn't as big as it is now.
posting this a couple days after a team of scientists cured pancreatic cancer in rats is certainly a choice
no wonder everyone says americans are dumb
after reading whats above me, retarded might be a better word
I'd argue it peaked way before that but we'll find a new peak if we can figure out how to prevent deforestation.
as someone who researches for tech companies and will soon research for my own company
most smart peoples ideas are patented and owned by google or microsoft lmfao
It's bc of money. The next steps to advance just require lots of it. Also, I'm sure you're aware of the cancer story. Cancer has been cured, the solution is buried bc they make 10000x more selling treatments. Same with gas, someone already figured out how to run a car on just water alone, big oil bought up the designs/patents and buried it.
correction: one type of cancer has a treatment
there are still hundreds of other types of cancer that have no reliable treatment methods
also the shit about water running a car alone sounds like bullshit
water literally cannot provide that energy
i believe they managed to get a hydrogen-based (not water) engine to work. however, the current infrastructure and cons would not be worthwhile to push it as an alternative is what i've been told
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