Technology and Scientific Ideas.

[socrat44]

    Technology and Scientific Ideas.
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The technological problems have great influence on scientific ideas.
For example:
a) in Maxwell's time,  technology was mechanical and therefore
  Maxwell explained his EM theory using mechanical toys:
  balls, hooks, springs . . .  etc.

b) in the last years of  the19 century many physicists were busy with
problem of simultaneous measurement  of time.
Therefore Einstein's SRT was begun with this simultaneous problem,
and this way ( until today) lead to many speculations about SRT.
( one train / rocket -  other train / rocket )

c) in the time where the big bang was entered in cosmology scientists
were amazed by great nuclear forces therefore using high pressure / density
  ( which was created by gravity masses - the weakest in nature)
they invented big bang which says nothing about
where did masses come from
( big bang created singularity,  singularity created big bang )
This theory is from the Alice's Wonderland.
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Best wishes.
Israel  Sadovnik  Socratus.
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[zetreque]

I'm not really following the spectrum here. Are you trying to say that technology and ideas are building blocks feeding off of one another? A plumber will think of the world in terms of water pipes and plumbing. A gardener will think of the world in terms of plants, landscaping, and soil. A truck driver will think of the world in terms of trucking. A chemist sees the world in terms of molecules. A painter notices color. A mathematician in terms of numbers. An economist in markets. A beekeeper in bees and colonies. A computer gamer in terms of strategy. A soldier in terms of war. People tackle problems in terms of what they know.

[socrat44]

People tackle problems in terms of what they know.

Correct.
For example
Maxwell knew much about mechanics  but a little about structure of EM waves
Therefore he used mechanical models / terms

etc . . . etc . . .
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