In that quest, I ve actually gone back to school. Last year, I took a semester course in microbiology, and that led to a couple of stories published in Analog . And a new area to explore, which I love to do. All knowledge is expanding. I guess somebody uses it.
Somebody makes the information with some purpose in mind.
But I have a feeling a lot of it is simply getting lost and will have to be rediscovered, like Mendel with his sweetpeas. I got my B.S. in Chemistry in 1942, over 60 years ago, and chemistry has changed a lot. Of course, you keep up a little bit. You read the literature, Scientific American . Physics is tougher.