• Question: What are the long term and short term effects of science?

    Asked by 327smaj22 to Alessandra, Dimitrios, Niamh, Becky, Stacey on 21 Jun 2017.
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      Stacey Marple answered on 21 Jun 2017:

      Paradigm-changing discoveries (the ones that change how we think) normally have limited early impact because the more a discovery deviates from the normal the longer it takes to be appreciated by people. It took years for people to believe Einstein’s theory of Special Relativity and General Relativity.

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