Timeline for How long can the physics behind a technology go unexplained?
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| Dec 11, 2016 at 11:56 | answer | added | user2394284 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 11, 2016 at 17:07 | answer | added | Cem Kalyoncu | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 11, 2016 at 15:45 | answer | added | Sesdun | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 12, 2015 at 11:37 | answer | added | nigel222 | timeline score: 5 | |
| Dec 10, 2015 at 19:34 | comment | added | IchabodE | When they finally discover that it works via blood sacrifice of only the cutest animals, will they stop using it? | |
| Jul 10, 2015 at 2:19 | answer | added | Travis Smith of Bexar | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 9, 2015 at 19:24 | answer | added | chasly - supports Monica | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jun 29, 2015 at 15:46 | comment | added | RBarryYoung | Compasses were invented and reproduced for almost 2000 years before we understood Magnetism. If the science it is based on is "sufficiently advanced" then it could take us a very long time, even hundreds of years, to understand it, even though it may be simple enough for us to use and even replicate. | |
| Jun 29, 2015 at 5:03 | answer | added | user3082 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 24, 2015 at 9:17 | comment | added | reirab | Potentially a very long time. Consider that gravity is not well understood, but we've been observing and using it for all of human history. Its effects are pretty well understood, but its cause isn't. See also (make sure to read the mouse-over text.) | |
| Feb 10, 2015 at 10:22 | comment | added | tls | You can look at photosynthesis and how we have been trying for decades to recreate it artificially.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2733759/… and commondreams.org/news/2010/04/13/… | |
| Feb 9, 2015 at 0:55 | answer | added | Cort Ammon | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 9, 2015 at 0:01 | answer | added | ckersch | timeline score: 17 | |
| Feb 8, 2015 at 23:59 | comment | added | user3652621 | I think it depends what you mean by "explained". Humans have used arrows for millennia without understanding how it is that they fly. | |
| Feb 8, 2015 at 23:27 | answer | added | Monty Wild♦ | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 8, 2015 at 23:14 | history | asked | AdamHovorka | CC BY-SA 3.0 |