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Scientific Discoveries Made By Single People/Small Teams

Anonymous Mon 28 Mar 18:09:06 2022 No.14344546 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>14345056 >>14345828 >>14346684 >>14346709 >>14347125 >>14347222

In the age of multimillion dollar experiments with teams of 1000+ men, has there been any recent scientific progress made by a single person or a small team?

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Anonymous Mon 28 Mar 2022 21:43:21 No.14345056 Report

Quoted By: >>14345079 >>14345294 >>14347175

>>14344546

Ask the other way around ... when did a multimillion dollar experiment recently produce anything of true significance?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 28 Mar 2022 21:52:57 No.14345079 Report

Quoted By: >>14345090 >>14346688

>>14345056
Well, you have the whole neutrinos carry mass experiment in Japan. It needed a particle accelerator and a "catch" station at the other side of the nation. Pretty sick if you ask me

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Anonymous Mon 28 Mar 2022 22:00:36 No.14345090 Report

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>>14345079

Yeah right, this is one of the exceptions where such fuck expensive are necessary. Cannot do this kind of research on a lab bench. In that case yeah ... pretty sick. :)
But generally, in many other areas, these big projects primarily turn into an endless sinkhole for funding, yielding few results. Mostly as it appears to me most of such projects these days work by trying to wrap the approach around the expected result and not around a problem. Just look at the old Human Genome Project ... in the end it was Venter who won the race, not the big state funded approach.

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Anonymous Mon 28 Mar 2022 23:40:19 No.14345294 Report

Quoted By: >>14346529

>>14345056
I did a good amount of reading on the SNO and SNO+ experiment since one of my profs did his PhD and conducts most of his research there. Pretty interesting stuff. I applied to work there as a student this summer. Can't tell if I got rejected because I'm a first year or got a B+ in Chemsitry kek (didn't go to a single lecture lmao).

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Anonymous Tue 29 Mar 2022 05:37:23 No.14345828 Report

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>>14344546
I know it sounds terrifying to you, but you're going to have to be social and work with people if you want to do anything important; not every problem can be solved by you thinking at your computer

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Anonymous Tue 29 Mar 2022 05:50:26 No.14345843 Report

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yes. anon that posted about it was banned

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Anonymous Tue 29 Mar 2022 13:48:29 No.14346529 Report

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>>14345294

>Pretty interesting stuff.

Not my field but what is the primary aim of it ... curious.

>didn't go to a single lecture lmao

Sounds awfully familiar. Should have seen my grades. :D
So long ago now. Wish you all the best anyway with being admitted there!

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Anonymous Tue 29 Mar 2022 15:27:20 No.14346684 Report

Quoted By: >>14346688 >>14347175

>>14344546
Nothing of common practical consequence will ever be discovered with such fundamentally impractical machines. If some phenomenon has common practical applications, you will be able to investigate that phenomenon using common practical instruments.

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Anonymous Tue 29 Mar 2022 15:29:21 No.14346688 Report

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>>14345079
Neutrinos are a perfect example of >>14346684
If you need detectors the size of buildings to have any chance of interacting with one at all, then it will never have practical applications to the general public. No household or even common industrial gadget will ever use neutrinos because they're too impractical to even see, or interact with in any way.

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Anonymous Tue 29 Mar 2022 15:36:09 No.14346700 Report

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>>14345828
I never said that. I'm not as autistic as a lot of people here, I have friends and was able to get a girlfriend. It was just something interesting to think about

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Anonymous Tue 29 Mar 2022 15:40:57 No.14346709 Report

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>>14344546
Multimillion experiments are normally engineering work, most theoretical breakthroughts are made by single or team of mathematicians/physicists on mininum wage.

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Anonymous Tue 29 Mar 2022 18:58:40 No.14347125 Report

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>>14344546
Graphene and high temperature superconductors.

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Anonymous Tue 29 Mar 2022 19:00:21 No.14347132 Report

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Leonhard Euler worked in a dark shack with tiny a hole in the wall. It was called, the aperture

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Anonymous Tue 29 Mar 2022 19:20:28 No.14347175 Report

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>>14345056
detection of gravitational waves
>>14346684
particles accelerators, big honking x-ray lasers, and cold neutron sources have been useful in for imaging really small and fast things and doing materials science. Even the food industry has used synchrotrons to understand the structure of ice cream so that they can make it better:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0260877418302309

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Anonymous Tue 29 Mar 2022 19:26:42 No.14347189 Report

Quoted By: >>14347196 >>14347209

>>14347175
Nobody uses neutrinos for anything and you know it. Stop coping.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 29 Mar 2022 19:29:36 No.14347196 Report

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>>14347189
who cares
it doesnt need to have a use
it just needs to keep the labcoats occupied with something

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Anonymous Tue 29 Mar 2022 19:39:32 No.14347209 Report

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>>14347189
yes, but things like synchrotron light sources, which cost tens-hundreds of millions of dollars, do a fuck load of science and some of it's quite applied too.

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Anonymous Tue 29 Mar 2022 19:44:24 No.14347222 Report

Quoted By: >>14347232 >>14347239

>>14344546
>has there been any recent scientific progress
no
jet and rocket engines, nuclear energy, electronic calculating machines, antibiotics and wireless telephony are all early-mid 1900s technology
if society was progressing then things would be getting better for you, people would be getting wealthier and lief expectancies would be increasing

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Anonymous Tue 29 Mar 2022 19:48:35 No.14347232 Report

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>>14347222
>he thinks gdp and technological and scientific advancement are directly related
Not sorry to say this but for unknown reasons the rate at which science and tech has been evolving is shockingly a constant.
Again I don’t know why but you’d be surprised to find the rate at which huamanity has built and learned things hasn’t really changed since agriculture, the “scientific revolution” wasn’t real unless you lived in Europe And in the shittier parts of Europe

Every where else things were pretty normal and tech and science still continued as usual and to this day not much has changed

As for the industrial revolution it’s the same situation, industry has always existed and the achievement it is today wasn’t a couple decades but nearly 400 years of collective global effort

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 29 Mar 2022 19:50:24 No.14347239 Report

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>>14347222
>>14347232
Side note

Gdp growth does help but don’t put to much faith in that number as you wouldn’t have situations where the ussr gained almost every achievement within the space race despite having a smaller economy than Japan for most of its existence

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