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Originally Posted by renormalised
Craig, if we had to wait to have everything "scientifically proven" before we invented something or put it to use, we'd still be living in caves. What did the Wright Brothers know about the physics of flight??? Nothing at all I'd venture.
Yet they and others like them (Bleriot, Fokker etc) invented powered flight. The science came later. That's just one example.
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The physics of flight was tantamount to being unknown at the time.
Since the development of knowledge of the physics of flight, there has been a huge acceleration in the numbers of inventions to support it.
Once again .. the value of theory is evidenced by the enormous numbers of inventions, technologies occurring is shorter timeframes … across vast numbers of other minds.
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