More specifically, can you imagine Biology without the "MICROSCOPE", or can you imagine Astronomy without the "TELESCOPE", or can imagine Physics without a host of tools: (SPECTROMETER, NUCLEAR REACTOR, etc), or can imagine this contemporary moment without the "COMPUTER"?
Tools played a huge role in the history of humanity and our progress... Tools open new dimensions, widen scopes, extend reaches. They have their own pressure on ideas, paradigms, perspectives transforming them from being implausible to plausible, etc.
What do you think?
tools give you the needed implements to focus on making the theory a reality. if the implement doesnt exist then you revert to the age old saying Neccessity is the mother of invention and once again you are back to ideas.
I think what you are saying can be argued in a circular fashion like which came first the chicken or the egg.
the tools or the ideas?
