8 Oct
2004
8 Oct
'04
10:11 a.m.
That ties into the "great man" theory, according to my anthropologist friends. Paradigm shifts and all that. Just look at the Dobsonian telescope if you don't subscribe to the theory. Good point, Jim. --- Jim Cobb <james@cobb.name> wrote:
I am agreed, so far as you go. But sometimes the most impenetrable barriers are barriers of the imagination. Consider why the laser was not invented until 1960 (though Einstein recognized the existence of stimulated emission in 1917). It was a tremendous breakthrough, but could have been done long before. It has had tremendous impact since.
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