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TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Reminds me of something a coworker once told me. If you had a time machine and went back to the year 1825, there would be an absurd amount of basic chemistry you could discover. Some of it doesn’t even require any fancy equipment, but if you had a proper lab at your disposal, you could become famous in no time.

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FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
They’d probably burn you alive for Devil worship or something.

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- TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Don’t introduce anything too radical, so no tunneling electron microscopes just yet. However, you should be able to use empirical science to debunk BS ideas and move things along that way.
  
  For example, the phlogiston idea was proven wrong in the 1770s when people started burning metals and realized their mass increased in the process. Also, certain compounds can release oxygen, which can maintain a flame in an otherwise empty container. Sounds simple to us now, but back in those days, it was revolutionary.
  
  The idea is that, you have to work within the framework available at the time.
  
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  - FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    However, you should be able to use empirical science to debunk BS ideas and move things along that way.
    
    And that’s what gets them breaking out the pitchforks and torches.
    
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