[MarianaM (OP)]

Richard asks...

The late Professor Albert Bartlett said "The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." Was he right?

What do you think?

[alancalverd]

I have no problem with it. I use it most days to calculate radiation shielding requirements. Don't equate journalists, economists and politicians with humans.

The only Albert Bartlett in my corner of the universe is an excellent Irish roasting potato. Almost as good as King Edward.

[Halc]

Perhaps we understand it, but refuse to let it affect our priorities.
That puts the human race on par with bacteria in a petri dish of nutrients, with the exception that the bacteria is actually unaware of the exponential function, so it has an excuse.

[Hayseed]

No, our greatest mis-understanding is EM emission.  This had led to many, many science fairy tales.

These fairy tales have themselves fed many more fairy tales.

Space-time is delusional.

If this post is too strong for general science, just delete it.

[Halc]

If this post is too strong for general science, just delete it.

What the post is is irrelevant to the topic at hand.  You've posted this in multiple threads now, rather using a new (or possibly already existing topic) somewhere in new theories section.