Author: Alessandro Damiani
Date: 06:10:01 01/05/03
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On January 05, 2003 at 08:51:59, Sune Fischer wrote: >On January 05, 2003 at 08:34:21, Alessandro Damiani wrote: > >>>If a field is very advanced it becomes harder and harder to make contributions. >>>Why do you think people go to school for 9 years, then another 7 years to get an >>>education? And inspite of all your knowledge, how much did you contribute to >>>math or chemistry sciences? >>> >>>Getting new and good ideas is not easy when they have all been "taken". >>> >> >>This is wrong. History proved that: in the past classical physicians thought >>they knew almost everything of physics. > >They were not physicians. They were not even scients, they didn't know the basic >principles for good science, so obviously they came to a lot of wrong >conclusions. > Wrong conclusions?? Classical physics does still apply! But there is more than classical physics out there. That is my point. >>They *really* thought there would be >>only some isolated cases that had to be explained. This was until Einstein came >>and pushed the horizon of knowledge to a higher level! > >Today you need billions of dollars and 20 years of university study to make >history. If all you want is to do something no one has done before, it would >have been easier to do 200 years ago. > As I said, the horizon of knowledge is artificial. You are saying that nowadays it is harder to make progress. The horizon is not related to time, but to knowledge. Knowledge is timeless. Alessandro
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