(September 18, 2014 at 12:49 pm)Surgenator Wrote: Please give an example of something that science once said was impossible is now possible.
"There is not the slightest indication that [nuclear energy] will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will." -Albert Einstein
The number of scientists and engineers who confidently stated that heavier-than-air flight was impossible
Meteorites: The French Academy of Sciences famously stated that "rocks don't fall from the sky". Reports of fireballs and stones crashing to the ground were dismissed as hearsay and folklore, and the stones were sometimes explained away as "thunderstones" - the result of lightning strikes.
Warm superconductors. Thought to be impossible.
Black holes,1st mooted in the 18th century
Entangled particles that behave as if they are linked together no matter how wide the distance between them
