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It’s a defensible thesis, but they’re pretty incommensurable. Comparing arxiv to the discovery of CMB anisotropies or the acceleration of the universe requires a level of contrafactual imagining that’s hard to make very precise.
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If we specify impact on *the practice of physics*, the arxiv wins, sure. So does email. Probably LaTeX. Discoveries in one area of physics usually don't change practice within other areas.
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@arxiv has had a very widespread and positive impact on how science is done. But I don't know what criterion to use in comparing that to the impact of a scientific discovery. -
Perhaps it's fair to say that Gutenberg's printing press had more impact than
@arXiv, and that Newton's Principia had more impact than the discovery of dark energy. But does one know how to make an objective comparison between Gutenberg and Newton? - 2 more replies
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