What percentage of all human scientific knowledge....

[paul.deitch]

... does a typical person enjoy? I imagine that it is a difficult question to answer accurately but never the less interesting. I Googled but could not find any related answers. As a guess I imagine that it would be minute, let's say 1/100,000,000,000 as scientific knowledge increases every day, but does anyone else have a more informed estimate or has it been calculated before?

[SpeckledJim]

How is a 'piece' of information quantified in order to be measured?

[Simpo Two]

As you say it will be verging on nothing, but I did hear that the last time that any one person could know all that the human race knew was in the time of the Great Library of Alexandria. And then the Romans burnt it down, so you didn't have to know so much to be clever - which was a handy way to give the Roman kids Grade As

[tapkaJohnD]

One Hundred Per cent.

So much of Physics is still not understood, and we can consider all the other sciences as mere applications of Physics. As we are creatures whose existence depends on ill understood physics, we "enjoy" everything we do know but that is a small part of what we could know.

John

[Eric Mc]

What has enjoyment got to do with it?

[PowerfullyBuilt]

Isn't it more of a philosophical question, rather than a scientific one?

I'd say close to zero - some of the happiest people are those with the least interest in scientific knowledge. Ignorance is bliss and all that.

I for one find it incredibly depressing that I'll know very few answers to the great astrophysical questions in my lifetime, and I'm not yet 30.

[mrmr96]

tapkaJohnD said:

One Hundred Per cent.

So much of Physics is still not understood, and we can consider all the other sciences as mere applications of Physics.

Not quite....