Comments on: What if Gandhi was a physicist? http://www.homelyscientist.com/2007/08/what-if-gandhi-was-a-physicist/ Science at home from a science geek. Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:15:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: John Daicopoulos http://www.homelyscientist.com/2007/08/what-if-gandhi-was-a-physicist/comment-page-1/#comment-1044 John Daicopoulos Sun, 05 Aug 2007 02:04:42 +0000 http://www.homelyscientist.com/2007/08/03/what-if-gandhi-was-a-physicist/#comment-1044 Trying to ask "what if" questions is tantamount to predicting the future. One would need a frame of reference (the time period) and a known unknown discovery; clearly not possible. Neither is it important anymore to talk about who makes a discovery as most science is done in teams with team leaders (plural). This is good. Science and inventions should become common knowledge, and after appropriate kudos and intellectual property issues, brought out for the public good. That is cultural progress, and it works for all of us. Can I say we are "there" right now, clearly not; but progress happens incrementally, not by revolution. John Trying to ask “what if” questions is tantamount to predicting the future.

One would need a frame of reference (the time period) and a known unknown discovery; clearly not possible.

Neither is it important anymore to talk about who makes a discovery as most science is done in teams with team leaders (plural). This is good. Science and inventions should become common knowledge, and after appropriate kudos and intellectual property issues, brought out for the public good.

That is cultural progress, and it works for all of us. Can I say we are “there” right now, clearly not; but progress happens incrementally, not by revolution.

John

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