Sigma 5: 50 Years of Science

Normally I do not update posts after they are initially published. I feel it is only fair that you be able to go back and see what I said then and judge how it stands up in light of subsequent developments. This post will violate that policy.

For some time I have been publishing a series of "50 Years of Science" posts. The best way to read them as a group is by reading them in the order I published them. But I publish installments on an irregular basis so that is hard to do. I can link the current entry to the previous entry. And you can follow the chain all the way back to the first entry. But that means you end up reading them in reverse order.

You can, of course, start with the first one. But it does not contain a link to any of the subsequent ones. So, in general, you must hunt around to find them all. And it's hard to know if you have found all of them. I have decided to fix that problem.

The sole reason for the existence of this post is so that it can contain links to all the posts in the series. That way you can use this post as your home base and read any or all of the posts in the series in whatever order you want.

But I expect to add additional entries to the series from time to time. But from here out when I add a new entry I will update this entry to include a link to that new entry too. This will necessitate updating this post from time to time, perhaps long after the initial version is published. And that's my justification for making this a living post.

I will periodically update this entry on an "as needed" basis. At the time I am creating the initial version there are 7 official entries. I am also including a link to a closely related entry. (See below for details.) But I expect to create an eighth official entry in the series soon. That will necessitate updating this post shortly after the initial version is published. Subsequent additions to the series will necessitate further updates. So there will probably never be a final version.

Here are the links:

Part 1 -
https://sigma5.blogspot.com/2012/07/50-years-of-science-part-1.html

Part 2 -
https://sigma5.blogspot.com/2012/08/50-years-of-science-part-2.html

Part 3 -
https://sigma5.blogspot.com/2012/09/50-years-of-science-part-3.html

Part 4 -
https://sigma5.blogspot.com/2012/09/50-years-of-science-part-4.html

Part 5 -
https://sigma5.blogspot.com/2016/03/50-years-of-science-part-5.html

Part 6 -
https://sigma5.blogspot.com/2016/03/50-years-of-science-part-6.html

Part 7 -
https://sigma5.blogspot.com/2016/08/50-years-of-sceince-part-7.html

Predictions -
https://sigma5.blogspot.com/2016/09/50-years-of-science-predictions.html
Note: This isn't technically part of the series. But it is based on Asimov's writing. In 1964 he published an article in the New York Times in which he made a number of predictions about the state of Science 50 years in the future. This post discusses his original story, an interesting commentary by the noted Science Fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson, and, of course, my observations on both. If you are interested in the series I think you will be interested in this post too.

Part 8 -
https://sigma5.blogspot.com/2017/04/50-years-of-science-part-8.html

Part 9 -
https://sigma5.blogspot.com/2018/02/50-years-of-science-part-9.html

Part 10 -
https://sigma5.blogspot.com/2018/07/50-years-of-science-part-10.html

Part 11 -

https://sigma5.blogspot.com/2018/10/50-years-of-science-part-11.html