David LePoire, "Time Patterns in Big History: Cycles, Fractals, Waves, Transitions, and Singularities" (2020)
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The Evolution of Physics
A lot of these curves do show different behaviors if you look at them in different timescales, but a lot of people have looked at the logistic growth. So eventually it would kind of reach a saturation point, right, where someone would tell two people, and one of those two people would say, well, I already already know that. That kind of stops the exponential growth. And so again, that started out relatively slow, with Galileo and Newton,. You know, huge contributions, but they kind of laid the phone word. But once the foundation was set, then people could build on that really quickly. They really, you know, discovered that area, but they built new tools
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