Re: What was the most \'revolutionary\' scientific theory of all time?
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Evolution makes a bid, but after all it's only life on earth. Finding out that the entire universe behaves like nothing you would ever dream of is hard to trump.
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Of course, the only entities that are shocked by quantum mechanics are a subset of life on earth, if we're going to take that attitude to it.
It's a bit of a silly question, as there's not a very good, obvious way to quantify "revolutionarity" in all of the different fields. In terms of impact on the world at large, I don't really see that evolution and quantum mechanics have any real competition, and the impact of quantum mechanics is indirect, so I'd vote for evolution.
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