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Title: Who's done the longest scientific "spell" in history and how?
Post by: opportunity on 23/12/2018 18:49:08
"Spell" is like wording to convince us, that sort of thing, nothing beyond magic other than atomic warfare.
Title: Re: Who's done the longest scientific "spell" in history and how?
Post by: mad aetherist on 23/12/2018 19:48:25
We are in the Einsteinian Dark Age.
But i dont think we can blame Alby, all he did was to propose a theory or two. The blame goes to all of the idiots who swallowed it, plus all of the fools who wouldnt swallow but didnt spit it back either. The main blame for the spell goes to the money changers who trumpeted the new god & new religion. Alby went along for the ride. The spell is now dogma, in every institution. Heretics are thrown into the cold. Skoolkids pray to his statue, the Prince of Darkness.
But not for much longer -- for the times they are a'changin.
Title: Re: Who's done the longest scientific "spell" in history and how?
Post by: opportunity on 23/12/2018 20:26:28
Mum will not be happy given you've earned the Christmas pudding. You're right.
Title: Re: Who's done the longest scientific "spell" in history and how?
Post by: Petrochemicals on 24/12/2018 00:43:21
Global warming,

 heliocentricism,

The reputational credit of science itself. the importance of things like space probes and large hadron colliders construction that are easily suppassed far more cheaply and economically in a matter of years (with lazers in a briefcase size box in cerns case) massive narcassistic scientific ideologic folleys such as bringing a box of rocks from the moon, and other questions that we do not need the answers to, cost a fortune and are completley  beyond our capabilities other than to give credit to some scientist. Spend it on making a warp drive or curing cancer, wait a decade and achieve both for the same price.
Title: Re: Who's done the longest scientific "spell" in history and how?
Post by: Kryptid on 24/12/2018 02:37:42
"Spell" is like wording to convince us, that sort of thing, nothing beyond magic other than atomic warfare.

Are you talking about occasions where scientists were simply mistaken or are you talking more about conspiracy theories?
Title: Re: Who's done the longest scientific "spell" in history and how?
Post by: opportunity on 24/12/2018 02:58:17
Anything, really, anything that could have been great at the time, yet was superseded, people woke up, that sort of thing.
Title: Re: Who's done the longest scientific "spell" in history and how?
Post by: Kryptid on 24/12/2018 04:42:56
Anything, really, anything that could have been great at the time, yet was superseded, people woke up, that sort of thing.

That has happened constantly as science has advanced, so finding the longest-lasting scientific theory that was eventually falsified would be rather difficult. Geocentrism might be a good one, though.

heliocentricism,

I presume you are talking about some older models of heliocentrism and not the modern one?
Title: Re: Who's done the longest scientific "spell" in history and how?
Post by: opportunity on 24/12/2018 07:25:46
I think this is one of the better questions I've posted. There's a lot to it. There's undertones of our willingness to believe, and what we can prove otherwise.

Of course centuries ago we were susceptible to mixing faith with science, yet belief and science I think are long time friends, and will always be.

We have today the idea of the BBT, the big bang theory, and its not something we can prove yet deduce. With the advent of greater technology that could allow us to travel beyond our most distant planet, I am sure there will be new questions about how the universe works, and how we will present theories that are always going to be a step ahead of what we can prove.
Title: Re: Who's done the longest scientific "spell" in history and how?
Post by: Bored chemist on 24/12/2018 12:46:14
I think this is one of the better questions I've posted.
Really?
You think a good question is one that doesn't make sense and people have to try to ask or guess what you mean?

That explains a lot.
Title: Re: Who's done the longest scientific "spell" in history and how?
Post by: opportunity on 24/12/2018 12:59:50
I apologise for not mentioning you man.

I love your work.

Merry Xmas.

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