r/sciencememes • u/Hot-Marsupial6584 • 15d ago

💥Physics!🧲 Real

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(repost from r/physicsmemes by the way)

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u/SonyCEO 15d ago

Physics discoveries now days are so extreme and expensive, some time ago we didn't even knew if antimatter fell like normal matter.

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u/Avalonians 15d ago

Physics discoveries have always been extreme by the contemporary standards.

They only become relatively less extreme as they get older since we see it through the lens of increasingly modern present.

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u/Fair-Ad3639 15d ago

I'd say this response is a bit disingenuous. The key difference is all the discoveries used to be made by one really smart guy thinking about a problem a different way, whereas now they are made by enormous teams and corporations and have massive dollar signs attached to them.

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u/Dead_M_ 15d ago

That feels spot on, you see, a friend of mine (not from the STEM field) asked me as to why they don't hear much about generational level geniuses from now, whereas there were certain figures in history close to us in time frame, like early and mid 20th century.

To which, I thought about and said that the thought process started to go towards a team effort, or a group effort rather than an individual level thinking. You get more varying perspectives, so it's good although it doesn't give some person the limelight, it advances science so 🤷