Category talk:Technological races

Antigravity race?
Seems that this one started in early 1920 and involved many people that later started working for NASA, DARPA, etc in some cases also classified projects. In some cases they ended up discovering something interesting and Nobel Prizes have resulted despite the original effects being later found to be experimental error, noise etc. Could this actually be a case where discoveries result from failure rather than success?

The case of A Wiles is interesting, he eventually found a working proof for Fermats theorum using pieces of a failed earlier attempt This mirrors the "Method of exhaustion" which eventually led to calculus in the first place. Another example is CSIRO using a failed micro-black hole experiment equation to come up with Wifi. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 185.3.100.0 (talk) 02:53, 5 March 2019 (UTC)