who’s that? Leibnitz? not Newton?
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jnod4@lemmy.ca 1 day agoThe father of modern day physics changed course and started studying alchemy, chronology, biblical interpretation, losing himself to mysticism. He’d probably research big foot if he was alive as well. That doesn’t mean I’m going to dismiss his real magnum opus
TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No, they’re talking about Newton, who did go kinda batshit as an older man.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Contrary to modern-day physics, the “persistence hunting” thing is very much not a scientific consensus. It’s more of a fringe idea supported by hardly any science that somehow made it into popular science.
There’s about as much credible evidence to that theory as there is to the theory that eating chocolate helps with loosing weight.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Wikipedia politely labels persistence hunting as “conjecture”. It’s interesting that pretty much everything important from our ancestral past (e.g. fire-making, flint-napping tools, spears, skins and furs etc.) can be and regularly is reproduced by modern people. But somehow you never see modern people jogging down deer and killing them - even with the benefits of modern footwear, portable water containers, and GPS trackers.
MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Thank you chicken lady. That makes much more sense.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
“losing”