>>10858584If one wants to get into college and academia now, they have to pass standardized psychometric tests (ACT/SAT/GRE). The advent of selective tests coincides well with the waning of innovative heavy-lifters such as Einstein. It's possible that the selecting process only selects those who are good at test taking using crystalized knowledge, but poor at selecting those with the ability to generate novel concepts and make complex scientific inferences.
A typical gre question might ask:
3. A certain pet store sells only dogs and cats. In March, the store sold twice as many dogs as cats. In April, the store sold twice the number of dogs that it sold in March, and three times the number of cats that it sold in March. If the total number of pets the store sold in March and April combined was 500, how many dogs did the store sell in March?
But out in the field, a physicist may be confronted with a new problem which no body has answers to:
Could Hubble's Law, , be derived from quantum principles? If not why not?
