/sci/ - Science & Math

In the latest Nature there's an article about how scientific genius is extinct - Einstein was the last genius.

The argument is if you look at the current rate of scientific advance in the natural sciences, it has slowed down dramatically, and it takes larger teams of people and greater resources to make smaller and smaller incremental advances. There are no longer any lone geniuses revolutionizing a field of science in their spare time.

The reason for this, it is argued, is not that Einstein was unique, but rather that we're nearly finished in the field of scientific discovery, there are simply no more scientific "revolutions" to be had. There are many discoveries to be made and much that remains unknown, to be sure, but these are minor details rather than fundamental laws like E=mc^2.

An analogy can be found in sport - we are still breaking records at the Olympics, but by smaller and smaller increments every time. There are no longer Olympic-medal winning "all-round" athletes breaking records in multiple sports like Jim Thorpe or Carl Lewis. Everyone is highly specialized and shitloads of training and preparation involving teams of people goes into every millisecond of a record broken.

What say you, /sci/? Do you agree with the Nature article, or do you believe that you will be the next lone genius like Einstein and bring about a scientific revolution?

Hi!
What would happen if we take a stick that is 100 light-years long.
The point at 1m moves at 10m/s. Omega would be 10.

At 100 light years, which is 9.4605284 × 10^17m, the speed would be 9.4605284 × 10^18m/s.

The speed of light is 3x10^8m/s... problem, Einstein