Scientific Discoveries
Scenarios exploring how different scientific breakthroughs or their timing might have changed history
What If Peer Review Was Never Established?
Exploring the alternate timeline where formal peer review never emerged as the standard for scientific publishing, radically altering how knowledge is validated and disseminated.
What If Penicillin Was Never Discovered?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Alexander Fleming never discovered penicillin in 1928, potentially delaying the antibiotic revolution and transforming modern medicine, warfare, and global health outcomes throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.
What If Quantum Computing Developed Earlier?
Exploring the alternate timeline where quantum computing breakthroughs occurred decades before our timeline, potentially revolutionizing technology, cryptography, and scientific research by the early 21st century.
What If Quantum Mechanics Was Never Discovered?
Exploring the alternate timeline where the revolutionary theories of quantum physics never emerged, dramatically altering the course of 20th and 21st century science, technology, and society.
What If Rachel Carson Never Wrote 'Silent Spring'?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Rachel Carson's landmark environmental exposé was never published, potentially delaying the modern environmental movement by decades and dramatically altering our relationship with chemical pesticides.
What If Saskatoon Leveraged Agricultural Technology Earlier?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Saskatoon, Saskatchewan embraced agricultural innovation decades earlier, potentially transforming the Canadian Prairies into a global agtech powerhouse by the late 20th century.