The Speed Of Science

2022-10-16
1 min read
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The “Speed Of Science” looks like the race between Achilles and the tortoise, conceived by Zeno and described in Physics by Aristotle. Achilles impersonates Science, and the tortoise represents either Truth, or the problem at hand.

In this renown paradox, Achilles can never reach the tortoise: every time he reaches the place where the tortoise was, the tortoise moved on a bit. The distance reduces at every step, but cannot eventually become zero.

Whoever tried to approach reality with scientific methods, knows that for every amount of knowledge discovered, reality proves a little bit more complex than initially hypothesized, and Truth few steps farer.

The Speed Of Science is a slow, careful, and ever-decelerating race against the fractal complexity of the universe.

If you know some Science, someway contribute to it, or simply love it, stand up against the very concept of “Speed Of Science”.

A degrading hallucination coming straight out of watching too many sci-fi series (or maybe a qui pro quo with the speed of profits?).