Admin1: All the raw materials needed to discover radio waves were in existence 2000 years ago.
Doctor Gravytee: True. Look at Hertz' experiment it is so simple and beautiful.
A1: Why didn't anybody else thought about it before?
Dr. G: The European society was based on a scholastic model where a professional priestly group controlled the human knowledge database.
A1: Just like the monopoly Doctors of Alphysics enjoy on human reason?
Dr. G: Same doctors different name. Doctors allowed only a handful of people to work in science. If instead of 10, there were 100,000 human beings working on science and technology fields then there would be more scientific discoveries done faster.
A1: But there were great scientific discoveries made in Europe, such as great mechanical clocks.
Dr. G: Today the progress humans make every year is more than the Scholastic Europeans could make in 2000 years. Therefore if you think human potential equals building a mechanical clock in 2000 years of civilization then you may consider that a great advance. But I don't believe that it is. Take the advance of mechanical clock in 2000 years as unit of human potential. I would say that human potential is more than that? How much more?
A1: Maybe million times more?
Dr. G: How about a billion times more. It is only European self-serving propaganda to market 1/1,000,000,000 progress to be epitome of scientific progress. There is no discernible European progress in 2000 years when you compare that progress to the rate of advancement of today.
A1: That's very little progress.
Dr. G: The estimate above is actually favorable to Europeans. In reality there was negative progress. Humans are still trying to recover from the intellectual scars inflicted by Doctors on humanity. Consider that European Doctors burned alive any poor soul who dared to show any feeble signs of scientific thinking.
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Science is a progress, not a unit that is measured. Without someone taking several thousand years to discover the alphabet, we'd still be discovering it, never mind writing articles. If you start two thousand years later, it's going to take you an extra two thousand years to get to the point of having a "national physics society". Take a look at the Aztecs who did start a civilization two thousand years later than Babylon-Egypt (Europe's scientific ancestors). When Columbus landed in America, they were still discovering the wheel and metallurgy.
Just because you're impressed with the 20th century, it all would have been impossible without the 19 before it.
Also, since human population is greater, the number of scientists is greater, but less in the sense that an aristocrat in the Middle Ages would have a basement lab and dabble in a bit of alchemy or something else in their off time. Today, an aristocrat goes home and has a beer.
Thanks Anonymous for your comment! I am interested in these topics too. Dr. Gravytee preferred to write a new post as reply to your comments.
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