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7493867 No.7493867 [Reply] [Original]

Will we ever see a century with as many scientific breakthroughs than the 20th century?

theory of relativity
discovery of dna structure
discovery of universe expanding
dark matter and dark energy discovery
quantum physics
the internet
etc.

>> No.7493879

>>7493867
Yes. Why would you even ask a question like that?

>> No.7493887

we're 15 years into this century and life has already changed more in the last 10 years than in the previous 200 comined

>> No.7493892

>>7493887
scientifically? no this century hasnt showed much scientific breakthrough near to the caliber that the 20th century has produced.

>> No.7493896

>>7493887
Really? You think that the condition of the average man has changed more between the year 2000 and 2015 than between the year 1800 and 2000?

>> No.7494608

>>7493896
yea

>> No.7494738

>>7494608
>yea
Losing your personal v-card to a drunken land-whale with back-ne doesn't count as "progress for the condition of the average man", OP.

>> No.7494742
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7494742

Every fucking man woman and child is now staring into a tiny screen every waking minute of the day. I'd say that's significantly different.

>> No.7494790

>>7494742
This is depressing.
Posted from my phone btw

>> No.7494826

>>7493896
>56k modem in early 2000
>iphone in 2007
> internet pervasive throughout most of the world..
i mean going from horses to airplanes is inpressive, but alot has changed in the past 15 years.
and thats just the tech sector

>> No.7494835

>>7494790
How is it sad though? This is the technological future our parents and their parents dreamed of.

>> No.7494846

>>7494826

The difference between 2000 and 2015 consists of engineering breakthroughs, not science.

>> No.7494859

>>7494846
hardon collide was completed in 2000. Dumb ass.

>> No.7494993

Science will not move on until we have much better data, but we'll get there.
2005 was my Einstein year. I published 5 papers, two on triple integrals, 1 on Barnett Jacobian theory, 2 on Von Neumann Memory Matrixes

>> No.7495042

>>7494993
>matrixes
get out

>> No.7495043

>>7494835
It isnt though.
Their future had us in flying cars and living on the moon.

>> No.7495049

>>7493867
I'm not sure you fucking understand
we found the HIGGS BOSON
do people on this site really not fucking understand how important this is? it's literally the biggest fucking scientific discovery ever, for any reason

>> No.7495052

>>7494742
I never take pics on events. I don't even have a smartphone :^)

>> No.7495056

>>7495042
;D
Sent from my Iphone

>> No.7495061

>>7494738
/sci/ somehow comes up with the best insults

>> No.7495062

>>7494859
(sic)

>> No.7495065

>>7495049
it really isn't

>> No.7495104

>>7495049
>do people on this site really not fucking understand how important this is?

I don't. Explain

>> No.7495105

memes were discovered in the 21st century

>> No.7495107

>>7495049
People have assumed it exists for decades. Finding it is just confirmation.
Biggest discoveries in the next 10-20 years would be: dark matter, primordial grav. waves, some new particle we haven't predicted (or some confirmation of SUSY), true AI, solutions for triple integrals

>> No.7495108

>>7495105
Wrong. The selfish gene came out in the 20th, where Dawkins coined the term.

>> No.7495119

>>7495108

dawkins coined the term but who does all the work shitposting? not derpkins

>> No.7495124

>>7495119
That's what you think.

>> No.7495209

>>7493867
>Will we ever see a century
What do you mean by "we", Peasant?

>> No.7495210

>>7495049

the discovery of dark energy is much more important than the confirmation of the existence of a particle that was predicted to exist 50 years ago.

>> No.7495213

>>7493867
yeah the 21 is probably gonna be even more extreme. mapping up human genome, curing diseases, general AI, swarm conciousness (if humans can deal with that shit without going insane / stopping to be humans).

>> No.7495217

>>7495213
21st century:
>run out of means to produce electricity
>mass extinction

Ftfy

>> No.7495218

>>7495213
Computer machine learning and AI interacting with human brains could possibly be used to create really cool stuff.

Or it could be used to hartass and scare people into obedience.

>> No.7495252

>>7493867
>discovery of universe expanding
That's not a discovery, but a hypothesis based on an interpretation of redshift. Hubble said that redshift could as well validate the Steady State theory. In fact, recent observations point in the direction of the Steady State theory being correct in the form of an infinite flat universe.

>> No.7495258

>>7493867
Nope.

The 20th century was the century of science.

The 21st century is the century of music.

All those hundreds of millions of people murdered by other people in the 20th century? Yeah. Science. Hard at work. Not that the 19th was much better. Is it progress? Well, in a sense, we certainly had to stop living by blind faith at some point. But it's certainly not something that makes any sense to keep up.

The 21st century is the century of music. Enjoy it.

>> No.7495276

>>7495217
You meen there will be a global potatoe famine?

>> No.7495277

>>7493867
>dark matter and dark energy discovery
Unicorns. The only thing they've discovered are discrepancies in their cosmological model, and these discrepancies have then been given names like dark this and dark that. In other words, the underlying cosmological assumptions are wrong.

>> No.7495281

>>7495277
>What is helium for 10 points, please Alex.

>> No.7495282

>>7493867
>Will we ever see a century
What do you mean by "we", Peasant?

>> No.7495689

>>7495281
helium has something to do with incorrect cosmological assumptions?

>> No.7495715

>>7495282
This wasn't funny the first time you posted it, retard

>> No.7495753

>>7495119
Dawkins's whole life is a shitpost.

>> No.7495758
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7495758

>>7495753
>internet sperglord loser talks shit about a World-renowned Oxford professor

sick burn bro

>> No.7495880

>>7495758

Have you seen some of the things he says on his twitter and in articles (not related to relgion)?

He's a cranky old tinpot who rightly shouldn't be taken seriously on things outside of his profession (and even in that he really isn't all that relevant anymore).

>> No.7496082

>>7495049

How does it help the society? How does it help you? You make it a big deal, but what good does it bring? Will bring? How certain you are?

>> No.7496100

>>7493867
>control + f "nuclear energy"
>0 posts

Come on, guy!

>> No.7497521

>>7495715
It's still annoying seeing laymen talk about we this and we that.

>> No.7497738

No.

Theories of exponential growth in scientific knowledge are retarded.

Revolutionary scientific breakthroughs are not inherently related to 'micro' progress such as computers getting faster.

People like Kurzweil ignore how conditional scientific progress is on cultural factors, and the cultural soil that types like Einstein, Darwin, Planck, Bohr, Heisenberg etc grew out of is just not present anymore. We live in a basically 'defensive' and declining society, not an aggressive and expanding one. People are encouraged to be cynical, play it safe, conform, etc. This culture would never produce an Einstein.