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Richard Townsend said:
What’s a recent scientific discovery that’s totally changed the way you look at the world?”
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Dark matter and dark energy are probably the recent discoveries with the most radical implications for how the world works.

The double slit experiment, performed so that the interference pattern develops particle by particle, was also a profound and unsettling confirmation of the reality of wave/particle duality.

But all these date from the 1970s I think. There has been nothing with equivalent impact on how one sees nature since then, so far as I know.
 
exchemist said:
Dark matter and dark energy are probably the recent discoveries with the most radical implications for how the world works.

The double slit experiment, performed so that the interference pattern develops particle by particle, was also a profound and unsettling confirmation of the reality of wave/particle duality.

But all these date from the 1970s I think. There has been nothing with equivalent impact on how one sees nature since then, so far as I know.
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Hardly recent.

Young double split was 1801, DM i thought was Vera Rubin (70s) but there were indications before this.
Dark energy was discovered in the 90's so that is the most recent.

A paper came out in December 2025 (I think) that contradicts Perlmutter's work which I think is more important.
If it's backed up!
 
foghorn said:
Gravitational waves (direct discovery) and the Higgs Boson (indirect decovery), not so much the things themselves, but that fact that science predicted these things from models long before their discovery.

In other words… It notched-up science in my mind.
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Yeah but even the Higgs and GW were over ten years ago
 
This was a big deal. Archaeology is not just rich people with beige hats and matching shorts and socks any more.
It is DNA profiling, radiometric dating, geophysics, sedimentology, mineralogy, geology, metallurgy, pollen analysis (I don't know the ology for that)
Science!

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Discover the incredible story of the king under the car park at the award-winning King Richard III Visitor Centre in Leicester
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Richard Townsend said:
What’s a recent scientific discovery that’s totally changed the way you look at the world?”
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I assume data from the JWST is eventually going to modify some nook of theory significantly. But until all the dust and controversy settles down, it may be futile to prognosticate what will triumph or even bother to pay close attention beforehand. Little red dots, and the idea being valued that they are young black holes, isn't exactly shaking the trunk of the cosmos tree.

Researchers solve mystery of universe's 'little red dots'
www.eurekalert.org

Copenhagen researchers make the front page of Nature: Solving the mystery of the universe's ‘little red dots’

Since the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) went into operation, red dots in its images have puzzled researchers around the world. Now, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have explained these enigmatic findings, revealing the most violent forces in the universe concealed in a cocoon...
www.eurekalert.org
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Pinball1970 said:
Yeah but even the Higgs and GW were over ten years ago
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Wot!
The technological and scientific processes use in that Richard III dig are hardly modern.

Speaking of Shakespeare’s baddie.
I wonder if Andrew Winsor will get such a procession when he pegs it?
 
foghorn said:
Wot!
The technological and scientific processes use in that Richard III dig are hardly modern.

Speaking of Shakespeare’s baddie.
I wonder if Andrew Winsor will get such a procession when he pegs it?
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The discovery was recent. DNA analysis improves year on year and they used dating techniques among other things in their tool box.

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Pinball1970 said:
Hardly recent.

Young double split was 1801, DM i thought was Vera Rubin (70s) but there were indications before this.
Dark energy was discovered in the 90's so that is the most recent.

A paper came out in December 2025 (I think) that contradicts Perlmutter's work which I think is more important.
If it's backed up!
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On the double slit experiment, the weird and wonderful thing was when for the first time both light and electrons had been passed through the slits and detected on the screen one at a time, thereby proving (a) that a single wave/particle is diffracted by the two slits (!!) and (b ) that the resulting "wave" interference pattern would accumulate dot by dot (!!) on the screen.

The technology to do that only became available in the 70s, as far as I recall.

Yes, sure, these were all back in the 1970s so not recent in the sense of last year or so. But then Richard is asking for things that totally change how I see the world. Things that do that are not going to come along like Tube trains;).
 
exchemist said:
On the double slit experiment, the weird and wonderful thing was when for the first time both light and electrons had been passed through the slits and detected on the screen one at a time, thereby proving (a) that a single wave/particle is diffracted by the two slits (!!) and (b ) that the resulting "wave" interference pattern would accumulate dot by dot (!!) on the screen.

The technology to do that only became available in the 70s, as far as I recall.

Yes, sure, these were all back in the 1970s so not recent in the sense of last year or so. But then Richard is asking for things that totally change how I see the world. Things that do that are not going to come along like Tube trains;).
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Fair enough.
Big hitters?

Cosmology today is all about Webb, Euclid, Vera and hopefully Roman et al.

Every pretty picture has a wealth of science behind it. One of my interests.
 
Pinball1970 said:
The discovery was recent. DNA analysis improves year on year and they used dating techniques among other things in their tool box.
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The first discovery of Gravitational waves was Sept 2015, after your Richard 111 dig results were released in Feb 2013.
And Gravitational detectors have improved too since 2015.
From your link:
The exciting results of the DNA analysis were announced in February 2013
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DNA
 
Richard Townsend said:
What’s a recent scientific discovery that’s totally changed the way you look at the world?
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The Equal Earth map projection is a new equal-area pseudocylindrical projection for world maps jointly developed by Bojan Šavrič (Esri), Tom Patterson (US National Park Service), and Bernhard Jenny (Monash University). ;)

Equal Earth Wall Map - Projection

A wall map in the Equal Earth projection showing countries of the world. The map is free of charge.
equal-earth.com
 
And more seriously, a lot that's going on with epigenetics.

my.clevelandclinic.org

What Is Epigenetics?

Did you know what you eat and your physical activity level can affect how your genes work? Learn about epigenetics and what scientists know so far.
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The heritability of epigenetic markers, and what's being learned about how, say, maternal life experiences can change those markers in her children and their children, has amazed me and pulled me out of simplistic Darwinian slumbers. It's not just the genes.
 
James R said:
The detection of the Higgs boson is one that springs to mind. No longer is mass a mysterious property that some particles have, while others do not. We can explain it.
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А что придаёт массу бозону Хиггса?
 
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