You obviously never heard of Andrew Wiles, who solved Fermat's last Theorem - one of the hardest mathematical problem solved up to this day - almost alone after years of research in his own little chamber. no one knew Andrew was working on it, till he realesed his paper to the public.
So it is possible for some genius to come up with world-changing stuff, he/she researched without anyone knowing it./keimfrei
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You obviously never heard of Andrew Wiles, who solved Fermat's last Theorem - one of the hardest mathematical problem solved up to this day - almost alone after years of research in his own little chamber. no one knew Andrew was working on it, till he realesed his paper to the public.
/keimfrei
So it is possible for some genius to come up with world-changing stuff, he/she researched without anyone knowing it.