Optimizing Interdisciplinarity

[Bret Cahill]

InnoCentive found that “the further the problem was
from the solver’s expertise, the more likely they were
to solve it,” often by applying specialized knowledge
or instruments developed for another purpose.
Maybe it would be better to say the more stunning
the breakthrough the more dissimilar the fields.
Or maybe thats mindlessly silly. Didnt happen with the
stunning breakthrus of the industrial revolution, discovery
of electricity, evolution, working out what DNA is about, the
invention of the transistor, or the integrated circuit, or radio,
or TV or photography or movies or the PC or the net either.
A chemist came up with the MRI.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Mansfield
Nope.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Lauterbur

Which says

Which says Lauterbur was a chemist.

. . .

Einstein came up with the Freon based cooling system which
is considered more mechanical engineering that atomic physics.
Hardly surprising given that he was initially employed in the patent office.
How does that make Einstein a ME?
Pathetic.
You have no calculations or reasoning.
You in spades, child.
Every time you dodge I'll pop the same question:

And I'll respond precisely the same way, child.

How does working  at the PO make Einstein a ME?

Pathetic.

Again, how does working at the PO make Einstein a ME?

Every time you dodge I'll pop the same question.

We'll determine the extent of your larnin' disability.


Bret Cahill