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• will_a113@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  He’s not wrong…

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  • Alteon@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m fairly certain it’s a meme. Pretty sure I saw this exact thing with a Hawk Tua as the person being quoted.

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    • will_a113@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh definitely a meme, and a heavily recycled one at that :)

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Btw, does string theory consider zero point fluctuations?

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  • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What do you mean? Zero point energy comes up as a result of quantum mechanics, why would it be ignored?

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    • dragonfucker@lemmy.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Zero point energy is the stuff Syndrome uses to toss Mister Incredible around, right?

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    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Guess i need to refresh that knowledge.

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• Gork@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Are string theorists… braneiacs?

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• FuckyWucky@hexbear.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  fair

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• passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The same was true of relativity

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  • eestileib@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The relativistic model was demonstrated to better describe the transit of Venus than Newtonian mechanics. It had been quickly proposed as a good test, was generally accepted as the crucial experiment, and all of this happened very fast.

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    • barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Another one was GPS: They had prepared two sets of maths for the satellites, Newtonian and relativistic. They started operating them with the Newtonian model, and the satellites went out of sync, nothing really worked. Then they flipped the switch to relativistic, and everything worked flawlessly.

      Even before that they took an atomic clock, put it on a plane, and flew it around the earth to later compare to one that stayed on earth. They differed by the expected fraction of a fraction of a millisecond.

      Neither of those two could be done right when Einstein proposed relativity, but experiments like that could already be envisioned, “move a sufficiently precise clock sufficiently fast and compare it to a stationary one” is kind of a no-brainer. That’s not the case with string theory, noone has any idea how to test any of it.

      OTOH, physics shouldn’t feel bad about that stuff. E.g. number theory is notorious for results which are considered useless even by the people formulating them, only for an application to appear a century or two later.

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    • passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Source?

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  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Special Relativity was the theory to explain the results of the Michelson Morley Experiment from 20 years earlier that everyone else ignored because it made them uncomfortable and didn’t want to do the math.

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  • Mango@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Was

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