Post by Michael H Peters

“Science advances one funeral at a time.” “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” — Upton Sinclair “Science advances one funeral at a time.” — Economist Paul Samuelson, attributed to Planck, 1975 Newsweek "We must wait for an entire generation to die before change can come...." — Krishnamurthy, Vice President, World Bank, to me on a plane over Eastern Europe Tolstoy, John Maynard Keynes, Paul of Tarsus, Jesus, and many others have said, and experienced, the same. “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.” — Max Planck The man who shattered classical physics — whose single equation (E=hf) forced an entirely new worldview on the scientific establishment — understood something most notice or never learn: If others are incentivized by their wounded pride, or greed, or fear, or envy, or laziness, or popularity… Truth and love are just inconvenient obstacles to them, rather than an opportunity for growth. "The Stone the Builders rejected..." “Don’t confuse (or embarrass) me with the truth. I will use every trick in Saul Alinsky’s book to harm you or discredit you, or get you to quit!“ Planck introduced quantum theory in 1900. The Nobel committee didn’t even tolerate it for eighteen years! His essential discoveries, proven true, faced hostile resistance from the very people best positioned to understand it. Today, economists and physicists estimate that over 30% of the modern global GDP relies directly on technologies born from Planck’s quantum revolution. If you remove his discovery, the modern world's digital infrastructure collapses. Lasers, silicon chips for computers and any modern technology, MRI’s and modern medicine, solar energy, quantum computing, and atomic clocks/GPS. And yet… Max was literally just called “a gimmick“ for 18 years. “Science and Life seem to advance one funeral at a time.” Planck changed everything: energy doesn’t flow in a smooth, continuous stream — it moves in small chunks he called quanta. “Planck’s Constant” lives on in quantum equations. His work also handed Einstein the tools he needed to explain the photoelectric effect. Two of history’s greatest scientific breakthroughs are directly connected. Planck broke the old model entirely, and built the foundation everyone else now stands on. “Science advances one funeral at a time.” — Max Planck So does culture. So do organizations. So does a religious system or financial system, or any institution with something to lose: popularity or power or pesos. The question: Are you willing to pursue truth, even if costly? Or are you the one whose funeral someone is waiting on? Don’t be that humanoid. You would be missing out on something glorious, at a time that the world and human race could not need it more! BeHisChange.com

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