This was the main discovery of the Scientific Revolution - that ended Medieval world, and made the Industrial Revolution possible.
Science realized that Time and Space were uniform and infinite - infinitely small and infinitely large. And that processes could be discovered there, that were repeatable - the same conditions always produced the same results. There were Mathematical Scientific Laws, such as Newton's Laws of Gravitation.
Some people (in Northern Europe, as the result of the Reformation) realized the importance of this - and become rich. Other people (in Southern Europe, as the result of the Counter-Reformation) fought against this - and remained poor.
The end result, for the North, was the Ford assembly line - that produced huge numbers of identical cars, at steadily reduced prices. And greatly enriched the workers there. And produced the roads they could operate on - at unheard of speeds.
This was the situation in the middle of the last century - but after this, something strange happened. As described in How America Lost Faith in Expertise.
Americans not only lost faith in experts - they last faith in Science, and in Scientific Reality.
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