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June 28th, 2007Modern Scientists
As I mentioned a little bit earlier there are some great things that modern scientists and researches have accomplished. Overall, however, I’m not too impressed with our scientists. My reasoning for not being impressed is how easy it is these days to make observations, predictions, and discoveries. These days, if you want to discover a new star just buy the most expensive telescope you can and send in the information that you’ve gathered, I’m sure you’ll have uncovered something new. If you want to solve Pi to the most digits, get a ridiculously fast computer running and have it do just that for years. Eventually, you’ll have figured it out.
All of this goes with a resounding Laaaaaame.
How about Aristarchus who was one of the forefathers to the heliocentric model of the solar system? How about Gauss who laid down the principles of more than half a dozen math fields. They did all of this without calculators and, I think, understood math to a far greater degree. I think there’s a missing component to things when you do it with a calculator. You miss out on the reflection, the patterns, and the thought that comes with writing a up a 900 page tome on a topic.
I guess I have a lot of respect for Kepler, Galileo, Copernicus, Gauss, Pythagoras, Fibonacci, et cetera, as they spent years of their lives solving problems that an eight grader can now solve in a moment.
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