Insights Thinking Outside The Box Versus Knowing What’s In The Box

[Greg Bernhardt]

Insights auto threads is broken atm, so I'm manually creating these for new Insight articles.

Someone who shows interest in science is initially a welcome development. So are fresh ideas from unexpected quarters. In contrast, there is a scientific community that is meticulously organized down to the last detail, allowing little to no external influence. With the invention of social media and other sites on the internet competing for content, unprecedented opportunities have opened up for everyone to make ideas and theories accessible to a broad public....

https://www.physicsforums.com/insig...side-the-box-versus-knowing-whats-in-the-box/

written by @fresh_42

 

[fresh_42]

I have to admit that I was lazy and didn't attach a list of references. Many citations are from various Wikipedia pages, either English or German ones (which I translated), but also from original papers (Planck, Noether, Einstein). We live in modern times, so I have all these papers on my hard drive. Means: I didn't want to trace back to the internet sites I found them on. However, when someone is interested in the original papers, I can provide the links here.