Physicist spends a year observing moon to estimate it’s mass, only to rule out the theory that moon is made of Swiss cheese
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Lotarion@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Physics is mostly finding bugs in the existing physics model of the universe, then patching them
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 weeks ago
I feel like physics is to the universe, as the lore of a Dark Souls game is to the gameplay. The universe (game) is already built, and physists just come up with the lore to explain the mechanics after the fact.
AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
More like finding bugs and exploiting the hell out of them.
janus2@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
I thought that was engineering
“this amount of bridge material should collapse under its own weight, but we made it into arches/triangles and now it doesn’t 👍”