price of developing Science and Technology through the World Wars, the Space Race, and The Cold War. Just like the competing families of Florence, and those of Italy, Venetians and the Vatican, it is competition for power that drives industry and the massive investment necessary for the progress of Science (Hubbles don’t come cheap). America has borne the brunt of this drive for scientific progress in the last Century. The national debt of this continent will exceed $10 trillion in the next year making America the customer for about half of the world’s military purchases. UK and other NATO countries, and our major foes come in at

around 10% of this level. The outcome is phenomenal, our homes, health’s and lifestyles are so full of expensive technology that we are too busy, surfing, downloading, shopping online or just viewing digitally transmitted entertainment that we forget to pay homage to the expensive defence related projects that spawned this technology; UK [the last Empire]: radar, jet technology, encryption (Bletchley Park) and US the modern empire]: the internet, nuclear weapons and nuclear power generation including drive for submarines and space satellite vehicles. War is the driver of technology; ironically those people seeking to maintain their way of life are responsible for its wide scale change; from the Renaissance families of Florence to the Pentagon and their operations including NASA’s perpetual collaborative experiments in aerospace including the recent hypersonic engine development program.
The End Point is found in its beginning, in the Renaissance, that scientific development is determined by Science Fiction in the same

modelling, through shear computer power to bring back 12th Century Baghdad mathematics to solve huge amounts of equations far quicker than the human can.
At the heart of the Renaissance and of Art itself is the human struggle as to how we should see ourselves, as subjects of the state, the Church, some Religion, or as individuals existing in relation to each other as the Internet form of Art would suggest, perhaps best exemplified in Face Book. In mosques there are few images to be found of people. In the Western World on the contrary many people give little thought to their status as Believer or Citizen yet alone to which form of government is preferable – State or Church.
The varying degrees of separation of the individual and their perception is a constant ebb and flow throughout history. Cave Art goes back to the time when humans seem to have mastered language, some 50,000 years ago. Since then we have been struggling with self-expression in all areas of creative thinking; the sciences, humanities, classics, politics and religion. Science and Engineering are no different; some of the most interesting scientific events of the last millennium are without explanation and certainly not widely in acceptance.
Trans-dimensional Ball lightning, cold fusion, room temperature nuclear physics, the anomalous finding from SETI - the Search for Extraterrestrial life and the entire subject of Metaphysics to which all Monastic Scholars were devoted for the first half of the last Millennium. All of these points fall foul of Science’s primary requirement that all Science should be reproducible using the same equipment by different
people. The Renaissance that gave us Da Vinci and Galileo was founded on the individual’s ability to be creative. Modern Science has done away with the individual and therefore offers people no insight in matters of human significance; religion and metaphysics. If there is a malaise amongst the people for Science, seen by most only as a shortage of Math’s Teachers. Might I suggest that a potential solution lies in the reunification of the Science with the Individual. As is being debated recently that at the fundamental level the human brain is a quantum device and if that is true, where does that leave the concept of reproducibility when the result can be both positive and negative at the same time. As in the case of SETI the designers of the experiment should have realised that such a fortuitous communication from the Stars could only be the result of a one-off alignment of the heavens and
by definition non-reproducible. Are we limiting science with the demands of neutrality, objectivity and reproducibility?