What will be the next big scientific breakthrough? | Eric Haseltine
Throughout history, speculation has spurred beautiful, revolutionary science — opening our eyes to entirely new universes. "I'm not talking about science that ...
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Tonight, I'm going to share with you my passion for science. I'm not talking about science that takes baby steps. I'm talking about science that takes enormous leaps. I'm talking Darwin, I'm talking Einstein, I'm talking revolutionary science that turns the world on its head. In a moment, I'm going to talk about two ideas that might do this. I say "might" because, with revolutionary ideas, most are flat wrong, and even those that are right seldom have the impact that we want them to have. To explain why I picked two ideas in particular, I'm going to start with a mystery. 1847, Vienna, Austria. Ignaz Semmelweis was a somber, compulsively thorough doctor who ran two maternity clinics. They were identical except for one thing. Women were dy...
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Tonight, I'm going to share with you my passion for science. I'm not talking about science that takes baby steps. I'm talking about science that takes enormous leaps. I'm talking Darwin, I'm talking Einstein, I'm talking revolutionary science that turns the world on its head. In a moment, I'm going to talk about two ideas that might do this. I say "might" because, with revolutionary ideas, most are flat wrong, and even those that are right seldom have the impact that we want them to have. To explain why I picked two ideas in particular, I'm going to start with a mystery. 1847, Vienna, Austria. Ignaz Semmelweis was a somber, compulsively thorough doctor who ran two maternity clinics. They were identical except for one thing. Women were dy...
