We don't have enough stories about scientific achievement

[CheertheSecond]

Can you imagine the feeling of the first person who invented the microscope and he realised just how many things everyone had missed? How many things that are always around him but he was only capable of knowing it at the moment? How many strange looking shapes moving around, living, eating and minding their own business in a world so small that the activities of the larger world almost feel remote and irrelevant to these tiny denizens? What is the thought of the man who saw it? What he wondered? Would he think that these alien-looking beings are capable of thoughts like him and his fellow humans too? How his heart trembled and his pen moved drastically to complete his paper so he could share this door to the new world with everyone else?

Can you feel the signs of exhilaration when the report wrote down the title for his article announcing the complete eradication of a deadly disease from the wild? How sentimental many people would feel and cheer when they knew none of their loved ones would ever be threatened by the disease? How the scientists, common people, politicians and the press feel when they obtained such monumental achievement? This was a feat only the gods are capable of and today they did it. It was the moment that they broke off a claw of Death. It was their ingenuity and the brilliance of their civilisation that shone like a constellation in the darkness of Death.

Can someone who spent years studying physics comprehend what the significance of theories like general relativity? Our understanding of the cosmos wasn't owed to one or two brilliant scientists. It was built by foundational knowledge and empirical evidences of countless generations. Each new generations added a part of their own. Each seemingly unremarkable person wrote a passing in the collection of evidences. You stood on shoulders of titans of the past and the present. Their contributions let you comprehend a broad pictures of the tremendous cosmos. How envious must those in the past be when they were limited by their present understandings and never got to know the far beyond as much as you did now. They who lived an inquisitive life was denied of the secret of knowledge. Da Vinci was probably one of those. Whose understanding of the world outstripped his own society. Never got to find a like-minded companion to relieve his lonesome.

There were just so much emotions in science that were rarely expressed to the people. As a writer, I find that to be a great shame for our society to not be there and share the joy and suffering with our fellow brilliantness. We can make people cry about love, loss and life. However, science is too love, loss and life. It is conviction not less than faith. It is sustenance no less than spirituality. It is as human as our own emotions which we proudly parade as the thing that set us apart from animals. Just as creativity is our divinity. Scientific knowledge is the fruit of a different branch but through it we are holy.

 

[laccoff_mawning]

If you are referring to fictional stories about scientific achievement, I think it's probably due to the difficult nature of making the story seem plausible.

If it's too easy, the reader has to question why nobody noticed something so obvious beforehand. If it's too hard, then that would require a massive buildup which would turn most people's attention away. If it's poorly done, people will notice the logical inconsistencies and that'll put them off the story.

As well as that, if people wanted to read science and discovery, they'd look for non-fiction books, and it would be much easier to write a non-fiction book on science than a fictional one.

 

[LeilaniOtter]

I did write a story several months ago about AI becoming sentient, and how it had to be controlled - but not too many people went for it.

 

[Cipiteca396]

There are plenty of stories that follow this tone, but they're all by necessity 'fiction'. Scientific breakthroughs are replaced by magical breakthroughs or cultivation enlightenment, or very, very rarely a sci-fi breakthrough that uses handwavium to create a 'fake' breakthrough in real science.

Well, there's also stuff like old Star Trek 'technology' becoming real. You can only laugh when someone's fiction ends up being someone else's thesis.

 

[CheertheSecond]

If you are referring to fictional stories about scientific achievement, I think it's probably due to the difficult nature of making the story seem plausible.

If it's too easy, the reader has to question why nobody noticed something so obvious beforehand. If it's too hard, then that would require a massive buildup which would turn most people's attention away. If it's poorly done, people will notice the logical inconsistencies and that'll put them off the story.

As well as that, if people wanted to read science and discovery, they'd look for non-fiction books, and it would be much easier to write a non-fiction book on science than a fictional one.

I did write a story several months ago about AI becoming sentient, and how it had to be controlled - but not too many people went for it.

There are plenty of stories that follow this tone, but they're all by necessity 'fiction'. Scientific breakthroughs are replaced by magical breakthroughs or cultivation enlightenment, or very, very rarely a sci-fi breakthrough that uses handwavium to create a 'fake' breakthrough in real science.

Well, there's also stuff like old Star Trek 'technology' becoming real. You can only laugh when someone's fiction ends up being someone else's thesis.

I am looking for the emotions though. The emotional values are the most important thing. Yes, we can go on about all the benefits of Scientific achievement but I felt the emotional aspect of such an achievement wasn't made as well as the other part. Meanwhile, it is truly an emotional supernova when these milestones are achieved. Some of the novels about magical breakthrough also had this problem. It failed to channel any sentiment to the readers while as I wrote in the op post, there are tons of them. You just need to see it.

The only fiction that did partial justice is Dr Stone.
The scene where the old man lamented that he didn't have a peer to share his joy of crafting, and Senku and the other kid said that he had them as fellows craftsmen. That was damn tearjerking. Science isn't dry and emotionless. It has plethora of novelty and feelings. The people in the situation may not feel it but if you looks at it from the civilisation's history's perspective. It was like resurrecting someone you lost.

 

[JayMark]

You have Tyranomaster's novel right here on ScribbleHub. It's pretty big. There are a many novels of this theme on RoyalRoad as well.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Unless it's something like Oppenheimer, the joy of discovery part is usually at the beginning - and the rest of the story deals with consequences, fall-out, and side effects.
For example, E. E. "Doc" Smith's Skylark series starts with "The Skylark of Space" which refers to a ship that not only it, but its crew are marvels of science - the crew able to use some psychic abilities, and the ship able to enhance those abilities and use them to explore space. The moment of the discovery was, IIRC (read it about fifteen years ago so may have the placement wrong) was mostly covered in half of chapter two in a flashback (though there were several smaller breakthroughs throughout the book, and I hear, the series though I've only found the first book in an affordable version so far).
A movie that brushed with this (and then threw it out for jokes or action, in equal measure) was Fantastic Four: First Steps - you do get to see Reed's excitement when his Bridge works, see some of his joy at having an excuse to fire up "The Excelsior" again, even see him get more hyped over coming up with a way to teleport the Earth than he seems to over his own son... But that's just the one character, and a small part of the film.

 

[CheertheSecond]

Unless it's something like Oppenheimer, the joy of discovery part is usually at the beginning - and the rest of the story deals with consequences, fall-out, and side effects.

The science novels always have to follow the plot of a precaution tale to remind scientists they aren't gods. This is probably one of the most pretentious lesson-of-the-day thing. I rather we have more stories about flat Earthers or religious extremists becoming the precaution tale of blind faith can end everything (example, dead space 3). Most scientific catastrophes have about 40-60% fault on the shareholders and stakeholders part. They just threw the scientists under the bus 'cause that's easier to solve the problem. It's never the customers' fault. I am bored of this to sick.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Ah yes, the first major science precautionary tale DID have a moment of euphoria when the scientist's project worked... but then that turned to horror when he saw the Creature that he, Victor Frankenstein, once a promising medical student who washed out over a growing obsession with defeating Death itself, had given "birth" to...