Re: [Pen-l] The Science Arrow of Time

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

me:
>> By the way, science does not always advance. It sometimes gets stuck
>> in cul-de-sacs or even goes backward (where "backward" is defined
>> later, with the benefit of hindsight) or gets involved in building
>> nukes and the like. Science can be corrupted, as in the pharmaceutical
>> industry or financial engineering.

raghu:
> I'd like to challenge you on this one. There do exist scientific
> disciplines that ALWAYS advance. Mathematics, for instance. Our body
> of knowledge of mathematics today is strictly greater than it was
> yesterday and so on.

I was thinking more about the _application_ of science (in research
and engineering, etc.) than about abstract science. Sorry that I
wasn't clear.

(BTW, some do not consider mathematics to be a science. I do not know why.)

-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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