So let’s say you have a time machine that can send back exactly 12 pages of (double sided) typed paper to any time from 1900 to present. What scientific results do you send back that will have the most impact on humanity (for good or ill.)
PS results about the time machine are not allowed.
Just to clarify: no microdots or cheating. The stuff you send back will be taken seriously by real scientists, but they’ll have the expected technical limitations. I know some things will be morally unpleasant (say, the atomic bomb.) No discussions of future events, only science.
@matthew_d_green The synthesis instructions for the easiest and safest weed killer, antibiotic and a couple other lifesaving drugs they could realistically make. So much of drug development is trial and error, that someone magically telling you where to look would have immediate effects even today. Some tips on how to grow better hybrid plants (they were already trying in 1900). One page on DNA, they can figure out the details.
