Science is for everyone

Most people believe that you have to be a trained scientist or recognised genius to make scientific breakthroughs in understanding and application. This is not true. While Albert Einstein was a scientist and recognised as one of the greatest physicists of all time, arguably even the greatest, yet he did not do that well at school. When he left university he couldn’t land a job in the field of science, not even as a teacher, so he took a job as a patent clerk instead.

His job at the patent office was not intellectually demanding and consequently this gave him lots of time to daydream and imagine crazy things like what would reality be like if you could ride on a beam of light. His job skills also helped him become a great Physicist. Examining patents required that he mentally remove all the complexity on patents and concentrate on the simple ideas behind each invention. This would prove to be a valuable skill later on when formatting equations on the complex universe into the simplest of form, the most famous being E=mc².

Of course the reason that scientists in general make most of the scientific breakthroughs is because of their interest in science, their training, and the amount of time they can devote to scientific thinking. But those outside of the scientific community are much larger in number, and we all have time to think, postulate, daydream, and imagine throughout our lives.

What could be discovered if most people could contribute to science even in a minute way. The accumulation of such a great pool of people with little time would add up to a huge amount of time dedicated to understanding the universe, life, and reality. If people could contribute even one idea each, imagine what could be discovered and achieved.

The main purpose of this site is to try and tap into this largely untapped market for scientific ideas. If we all contribute something, then maybe we can connect the dots of all these little ideas and find something significant. Believe it or not, Einstein placed imagination above knowledge. Surely we all have an imagination and are capable of imagining great things. If it can be imagined, then it could turn out to be true, because the mind can see the unrealised possibilities. He once famously said:

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”

The video below documents the rise of Albert Einstein from a his disappointing early years to becoming one of the greatest of minds the world has ever seen. If an unrecognised genius can in his own time, publish some of the greatest scientific papers ever published, then there are probably millions of unrecognised people out there today that could discover something significant.