Comment on Electrons
Donkter@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoPhysics is just us categorizing the relationships between different observed phenomena. “Explanations” are fun, and many can be true at certain scales, but getting deeper into any specific phenomenon is just a rabbit hole that leads to more and more “we don’t know why it does that, it just does and it works in our models.”
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Exactly my point!
You can’t get caught up in the why, because at our current understanding, there is no why.
There only is.
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Magnetism was my introduction to giving up the “need to know why”.
Why does one pole attract another? It just does.
It just does.
Move on.
Klear@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Fucking magnets.
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
oh man if I ever met a magnet in a dark alley 👊🤬👊
Donkter@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Sorry, I see how my post could have read. I was agreeing with you. I just wanted to add on because I think it’s so cool that the only thing we’ve ever really been able to do with all our scientific progress and applied science is establish that when we see one thing happening we can be pretty sure that it usually leads to this other thing and we don’t really know why.
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I didn’t take it as contradictory at all!
I was simply acknowledging that you understood my point and put a footnote period to the thought.