The Dwindling of Disruptive Science

This is interesting, a plotting of the graph of scientific discoveries that sent us veering off in new directions:

Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04577-5?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=nature&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1672852024

Note that there are fewer and fewer each year. 

There are a few possible explanations for this:

1. That we're on the right track and figuring things out slowly and at increasing smaller/larger scales - that the possibilities for disruptive science necessarily don't exist
2. That we've committed to being on the wrong track, and as a result disruptive possibilities are converging.
3. Science that might prove disruptive gets less funding.
4. That the world, over the past 100 years, has become increasingly homogeneous, and with that both the people and our ways of looking at things. 
5. That - especially since the internet - the sharing of scientific discoveries encourages people to build easier on the preexisting theories than conceive of new ones.

I am sure there are more, but it's curious to think about.

And no, "Ancient Mysteries" is not Disruptive. It's just dumb.