Physics is mostly finding bugs in the existing physics model of the universe, then patching them
I only want reality breaking stuff
Submitted 4 weeks ago by GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Lotarion@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
More like finding bugs and exploiting the hell out of them.
janus2@lemmy.zip 4 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 👍”
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Physicist spends a year observing moon to estimate it’s mass, only to rule out the theory that moon is made of Swiss cheese
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 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.
can@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
“Tested on mices” is the The biologist equivalent to the programmers “it works on my machine”
If humanity ever perishes and the next dominant species ends up being mice, the discovery and translation of our research will usher in a utopian world for them.
SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
They’d resurrect humans just to brutally torture us in vengeance.
spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
But why, we put up a statue in Russia to acknowledge their sacrifice /s
flora_explora@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
But only if they recreate laboratory conditions as well and then it wouldn’t really be a utopia
janus2@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
a utopia for agoraphobic mice