Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 06:19:52 01/05/03
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On January 05, 2003 at 09:10:01, Alessandro Damiani wrote: >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. Actually classical physics doesn't apply, only as an approximation, I thought that was your point. >As I said, the horizon of knowledge is artificial. You are saying that nowadays >it is harder to make progress. Natually as you get closer to the optimal program, it will become harder to improve. >The horizon is not related to time, but to >knowledge. Knowledge is timeless. You think the horizon can be pushed forever outwards, that is not so. Eg. quantum mechanics is pretty much a done deal now. You need to branch off somewhere and start on something new. -S. >Alessandro
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