Science Vs. Pure Mathematics, Einstein, Tesla, Musk, & the Myth of Exponential Growth

Abstract

Christopher Portosa Stevens

Thought Experiments on the Nature of Knowledge: A doubling rate of articles qualifying the ideas of Galileo’s discoveries or Mendeleev’s discoveries are not doubling rates in the nature of scientific knowledge; instead, they are doubling rates in scientific publications; moreover, General Laws and Principles of Science, like Galileo’s Laws, Mendeleev’s Laws, Hubble’s Law, or Darwin and Wallace’s Principles of Natural Selection, do not grow exponentially like, say, coal production in the 19th century or computer processing power described by Moore’s Law

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