I wish doctors would do the same.
Comment on Theories on Theories
ranzispa@mander.xyz 1 month ago
I’m a chemist, I just gave a class to students today. The main topic of the whole lesson was this: we have all these theories and methodologies, we are not going to study how they work and how to use them, let’s discuss now all the limitations they have and when they do not work.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Former chemistry student here. In chemistry, every single thing you ever do gets multiplied by a ridiculously big number. A few drops of water has 6.02*10^23 molecules in it. So even the tiniest chemical reactions are massive exercises in parallel processing, and measuring in human-scale units means you might miss by a few hexillion in either direction.
Isn’t it amazing internal combustion engines…ever work?
Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This is why engineers are insufferably smug.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
For being trained to think within tolerances?