Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "Science is in trouble and it worries me." video.

  1. In the realm of pure Physics a century ago, a great deal was achieved with pen and paper, mechanical-programmable calculating machines (if they had access to one), looking up logarithmic tables and cyclical functions from a book and a slide rule. No computers (or none available until the late 1940s) or even digital calculators. The American Physicist, Richard Feynman, could even do natural logarithmic calculations in his head (in the 1950s, allegedly) because i've read his autobiography. For Pete's sake, engineers got people to the moon using slide rule calculations (i am not degrading this debate whether people made it to the moon or whether it was faked)! With all this computing power from the past 50 years, theoretical Physics is not really taking off. But Einstein still largely comologically rules (with a few modifications), with no real new theory changjng or modifying how we measure things in the universe or how we find out how it works. Supersymmetry had some spectacular results in the mid-20th century but break throughs are noticably slowing down in current times (yes, it takes a lot more energy to do experiments with more massive and expensive supercolliders). With astonishing new discoveries from the JWT, we should be working feverishly on cosmology because somehow our conceptions of the evolution of the universe is not fitting what we see at enormous distances any more. We're increasingly challenged by observation, but we've reached a Plum Pudding moment.
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