/sci/ - Science & Math

>>16001449
So you're saying because of the potential inevitability of events such as heat death humanity should just off themselves trillions of years if not quadrillion of years ahead of time? Especially when it's only being theorized to occur based off our limited observations?

If there is life out there besides us I'm sure they've delved into this possible outcome. They may have even done what you've said we should do too. Which could be an answer to the Fermi Paradox, but hopefully humanity can produce something more concrete to justify such an action as intentionally committing species suicide.

For now I think there is tangible gain in surviving a bit longer in the universe.

>disruptive science
There's only been three real "disruptive" level science finds recently. Dinosaur fossils, Germ Theory and Quantum Mechanics.

The reason there's been a decline is because there wasn't many fundamentally different aspects of reality to discover. The fact those three were found within a few centuries apart from each other is more or less a fluke of timing and technology.

Do people think we should be able to find new discoveries equivalent to quantum mechanics at every corner?