What if Humans could live 1,000 years, then we would still have the top scientists of the last 1000 years, but would this help our scientific advancement or hurt our technological achievement? What about Einstein, what if he were still alive today? Would his name, cause folks to follow him to this day, rather than challenge his theories?
Some might say his celebrity could hurt the advancement of science if he were still alive. I disagree with this thought because, we have scientists today like Steven Hawking and the scientists of the day are busy challenging him in every way, as were the scientists in Einstein's day challenging him and his theories as well.
With regards to Einstein, if you will recall, even he himself was not satisfied with all his theories, some things he questioned most are still with us and some things he thought were absolute, were not exactly absolute, due to his lack of additional and current information, however had he learned this information he would have been the first to modify his theories.
Indeed, many of his theories and many theories of other men are still taught and they are dead now anyway. So, I believe that the comment about celebrity status is perhaps somewhat invalid, because many former dead scientists are celebrated more after their death then during and those theories are still taught and often hard to remove from the old text books anyway.
If our greatest scientists or thinkers could live for 1,000 years, the human race would be well better off than if they continue to perish at the current rate of human longevity and actuary table predictions. So, please think on this.
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