I wish doctors would do the same.
Comment on Theories on Theories
ranzispa@mander.xyz 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
This is why engineers are insufferably smug.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
For being trained to think within tolerances?