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Ajen@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
every scientist on planet earth is wrong about basic physics
Until someone comes up with a unified theory that works for both Newtonian mechanics and quantum mechanics I’d say this is true - we’re all wrong about basic physics.
SatyrSack@quokk.au 2 days ago
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
All models are wrong, some models are useful
Taldan@lemmy.world 2 days ago
When they come up with that model, it’ll be able to explain both how protons are formed, and show that the 9th planet, Vulcan, exists…
echodot@feddit.uk 1 day ago
It’s not Newtonian physics, we know Newtonian physics is wrong and have done for about a century.
It’s Einstein physics and quantum mechanics that need to be unified. Of course the fact that they don’t agree probably indicates that one, or the other, or both is also wrong.
I suspect that the real answer probably has something to do with our misunderstanding in how coarse graining plays inro quantum mechanics, because it just seems sort of a cop out to say that changes smooth out over larger distances. It’s just putting an arbitrary boundary between the two realms. It’s a good explanation but it also doesn’t really make any sense because why would the universe care?
nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
It’s generally useful to think of these things in more nuanced terms than right or wrong. If/when they are unified, if will be a refinement.
hermiene.net/…/relativity_of_wrong.html
WoodScientist@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Exactly. The Earth is actually shaped like a banana.