[Karls48 (Karl)]

The time is slowly getting ripe to remove billions of dollars funding from theoretical science and spend that money more wisely. It seems that main focus of current cosmology and theoretical physic is on proving why something is not possible instead figuring ways how to make it possible. Well give those funds to engineers, set them tasks – like faster then light communication and see what they can come up in 20 or so years.
The analogy between renaissance sparked by invention and the adoption of printing press and today’s internet revolution is striking..
Twenty or so years ago very few people would go to the trouble and expenses to get scientific papers or subscribe to the scientific journals. They generally accept what extracts or conclusion of general press or TV presented to them. Recognised Scientific elite had almost free hand to formulate any kind of theory with guarantee that authorities and general public would accept it. Any dissident opinions were simply not published in prestigious journals and therefore largely ignored. It again raises analogy with dominance of church dogma up to sixteen century.
With spread of Internet and ability to access any documents on your finger tips more and more people started to question established scientific worldview. People are able to read latest news about the experiments and discoveries and inevitably find gaps in the logic of current theories. The answers to such questioning that were sufficient in 15 and again in 19 century – Book 2 chapter 7 Saint so and so said – does not work now any more same as it stoped working in 17 century
PS
Mathematics is a talent endowed on some part of the population. It is not different from any other talents – artistic, musical, and poetic or simply being good salesman. Being above the average in one endeavour usually means being below average in other.
Mathematics is grossly overrated field of science. There is applied mathematics that is equal to any other scientific discipline. The theoretical maths – being elegant or compared to poetry. I was led to believe that elegance belong to the world of fashions. As engineer I believe that “elegant” means something that works and can be produced with minimal costs. As for poetry of mathematics – look in to metaphysics. It is just about same far off distance from reality but easier to understand.
Just one example of maths failure to find reason.
Lets say you night is cloudy and to get right focus you point your telescope on illuminated window few kilometres away. You can see the argument between male and female cumulating in the man sticking the woman. Over the course of number of nights the scene repeats over and over. The maths can describe it very accurately and the outcome (man hitting woman will be accurate). But no amount of equations can find out what and why actually happen. What about if that couple was rehearsing for the play. There is few more possible explanations that I will not go into.