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Do you need hundreds of millions of dollars to find breakthroughs in science, or is it a meme?
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>>17014619
No
But we found all the low hanging fruit decades ago so good luck
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>>17014619
You are free to do it for free.
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>>17014619
It 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
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>>17014718
Source?
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>>17014803
source: his ass
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>>17014619
American issue. There's free top tier universities in my country so no debt
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>>17014619
Since 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.
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>>17015498
Theoretical work is infinite; Einstein used only pen and paper.



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