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 Originally Posted by Vinland
If they solve quantum gravity, what do you think would be some quick advances?
Ong eventually made some decent predictions in his response.
It'd be a new way to understand energy and how that energy is transferred, and that has historically lead to explosions in technological advances that utilize this new knowledge.
The understanding of thermodynamics was a huge shift in tech. The unraveling of Maxwell's Equations and the understanding of electromagnetism spurred the industrial revolution. Advances in Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity have allowed us to make microwave ovens and nuclear power plants.
When we learn a new way to manipulate energy, it tends to have dramatic and unforeseeable consequences.
I'd imagine new state-level power plants and military weapons that make nuclear look like baby toys to eventually come of it. I'd expect advances in space travel would go wild. I imagine the scientific instrumentation we could make and data we could collect would be astounding.
I'm not really a futurist, though, in the sense of imagining what could be if [dot dot dot].
It's a fun game, but not one I devote much time to.
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