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dwaltrip on Feb 10, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: In the foundations of physics we haven't seen prog...

There wasn't a constant barrage of new insights in every single field throughout the past 250 years. Individual fields most certainly had periods of slowed or stalled progress.

coldtea on Feb 11, 2019 [–]

>There wasn't a constant barrage of new insights in every single field throughout the past 250 years.

Which is neither here not there, since we were talking about specific fields such as physics that did have a constant barrage.

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