Do you need hundreds of millions of dollars to find breakthroughs in science, or is it a meme?
>>17014619NoBut we found all the low hanging fruit decades ago so good luck
>>17014619You are free to do it for free.
>>17014619It depends on the field and ease of access.Is it all open source and open access?Then any schizo NEET could achieve a breakthrough from his bedroom or the library Is it all closed source closed institutional access and requires millions of dollars worth of machinery, equipment or ingredients? Then yeah
>>17014718Source?
>>17014803source: his ass
>>17014619American issue. There's free top tier universities in my country so no debt
>>17014619Since knowledge of the scientific method spread, all of the "easy" experiments that can be done on a table top or in a garage have been done and we can't see more without exponentially more expensive equipment and facilities.
>>17015498Theoretical work is infinite; Einstein used only pen and paper.