Then Einstein and Bohr broke everything again. Then Dirac and Feynman put it back together again. Now, we’ve basically got it all worked out…
Physics
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niktemadur@lemmy.world 1 year ago
AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 year ago
People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it’s more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly… time-y wimey… stuff.
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 1 year ago
Wasn’t there an expeeiment with lasers and reversing cause and effect?
Spider89@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I read this in TechnologyConnections voice.
ID411@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I’ll bite - we understand turbulence, don’t we ?
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Imo turbulence is “unsolved” in the same way the 3-Body problem is unsolved. It’s chaotic.
BlazeDaley@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We have a mathematical model, Navier-Stokes (NS), that seems to describe motion of fluids well. In practice NS and related approximation models with simpler numerical solutions can be used to derive useful results. In that sense we can simulate turbulence for some sets of conditions and get useful approximations out. In general it’s still an open problem if NS has, given an initial velocity field, a solution that is globally defined and smooth. Practically this means we don’t know one way or the other if NS has initial conditions under which the velocity or pressure fields of the solution tend to infinity in finite time. This is the unsolved Navier-Stokes problem.
niktemadur@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Maybe the turbulence was inside us all along / the friends we made along the way.
Kwakigra@beehaw.org 1 year ago
I love the honesty of actual science.
lemming@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
It should be said that this is from Science Abridged Beyond the Point of Usefulness by Zach Wienersmith.
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Weinersmith, really? Poor bastard
Thanks, though, that’s really helpful! I didn’t believe you until I looked it up :)
rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
His last name at birth was Weiner.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 year ago
“This is how the world works, except maybe it doesn’t.” - Physics
Zwiebel@feddit.org 1 year ago
“This is a model and description of how the world seems to work”
Unlearned9545@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Just wait until you learn about friction!
wick@lemm.ee 1 year ago
What we need is a visionary stem dropout to put it all together in a powepoint and release a YouTube video about how academia is suppressing their ideas.
EunieIsTheBus@feddit.de 1 year ago
I read this in the jingle voice from ‘the history of the entire world, I guess’. You know, the part about China?
Physics is back together 🎶 and it broke again
Hupf@feddit.de 1 year ago
Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.
barsquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I love that quote. I should buy that book just as an artifact to make me happy every time I see it. The absolute pinnacle of self-aware humor.
amenji@programming.dev 1 year ago
Which book?