I've been watching a lot of Youtube on science and quantum mechanics and the cosmos and relativity... and biology and all that stuff.. And I'm stunned... Absolutely stunned by the amount of knowledge that mankind has discovered. The scientific discoveries, the mathematics behind it... BUT what I'm stunned isn't that we have discovered it, but rather, how long ago we discovered it. It appears that mankind has known of a lot of the mathematics of science for pretty long. Quantum mechanics was already a thing in the time of Einstein, around 1920, although he was working more on relativity. Early quantum theory was profoundly re-conceived in the mid-1920s by Erwin Schrödinger, Werner Heisenberg, Max Born and others. In 1964, Belgium's Francois Englert and Britain's Peter Higgs independently theorized the existence of a subatomic particle that came to be known as the Higgs boson. Many of us weren't even born yet! It appears that many many scientific discoveries, scientists...