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Society has changed the most because of scientific revolutions. Agriculture first led humanity to consciousness. The wheel revolutionized movement. The Industrial Revolution changed how we manipulate energy, creating and redirecting and consuming. The Digital Revolution followed the creation of computers, allowing us to connect with each other and share information across the entire world. The development of each of these sciences and the hundreds of branches that exist within them have completely changed the world on levels we overlook, because they feel so essential to human life it's hard to believe we, all of humanity, existed without it.
Social revolution always comes with scientific revolution. There was one in physics not long ago-- the discovery and acceptance of quantum mechanics-- and some physicists like Amit Goswami have seen how quantum mechanics can change our whole civilization. I agree, but I also want to note that understanding the world exists as possibilities and possibility of possibility has always been understood by oppressed people. All of us who live in a terrible world have visions of better ones. Right now, in the PRESENT, we see other worlds. I know our concrete reality is the existence of multiple things at the same time. The world is diverse and exists equally for everybody across the world. If we practiced a non white supremacist science-- a practice that is inclusive and fundamentally understood our multidimensional existence instead of only growing the empire's mind-- I feel confident in saying that we would've unlocked quantum mechanics sooner. I hope more people, especially scientists, see how social inclusivity will lead us to more scientific accuracy-- not less and not equal, but more. I see all the negativity in the world as a measure of all the positivity we could possibly put into the world. We can be so much more... and in a real way, we already ARE so much more. It's just about looking towards that world instead of sticking to classical (antiquated) beliefs.
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