“We just throw darts in the dark now and see if the math still maths. If it does, we create a new field or theoretical physics.”
We've got it all worked out
Submitted 2 weeks ago by zedgeist@lemmy.world to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
ameancow@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This meme was circulated about 20 years ago by my reckoning.
It was clever back then, it’s far less entertaining now in an age when people are discarding science and factual knowledge wholesale.
We have very, very good models of each of those “things” listed. We have such good models for it, that we have created new kinds of telescopes that can see gravity, we have created computers that can calculate using individual particles in superposition, we have built tools to view the edge of space and time and have imaged the event-horizons around black holes.
These models only break down in extreme environments or when they intersect in certain conditions. But by “break down” we don’t mean “scientists throw their hands in the air and become flat-earthers” we mean “we are missing some key data” to make different fields of science work together.
I_Jedi@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
We still lack verification on right-handed neutrinos and the exact wave function for helium.
ameancow@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There are likely areas we will never have any greater insight on and phenomenon that will never be explained, but my point is just that people use these kinds of short-attention-span quips to go on to say that we don’t know for sure about climate change and vaccines and such.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Gravity too
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Also magnetism
mech@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
As one of the great scholars of our time has said:
“Nobody knows what a magnet is.”
Rusty@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I think it’s in the list as “hwavy stuff”.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I took that to mean singularities
the_tab_key@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Turbulence can go to hell
Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
A-fuckin-men brother
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Turbulence seems to be to be deterministic chaos, that if we had perfect resolution, and unlimited processing power, we could predict turbulent flow with precision.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I prefer not to reference deceased scientists & philosophers because it makes me appear old. I prefer to only acknowledge the wisdom of contemporaries such as Jordan Peterson & Neil DeGrass Tyson so people don’t think I’m elderly.
/s
(This is how I feel when kids say they’re embarrassed about liking 80s music)
tomiant@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
At first I was like, what? That is not funny!
But then I saw the /s and I was like, HOLY SHIT THAT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE NOW FUCK ME THAT WAS THE BEST JOKE I’VE EVER HEARD
Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Not even clear why hot water freeze faster than cold one.
neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I don’t think this is true. Just a myth or it only occurs in certain circumstances.
Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Not a myth, it’s known as Mpemba effect, several hypothese about it, but still not clear
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
This is old. We got turbulance now at least.
tomiant@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Look I ain’t calling you no turbulance, if you need help, call 911.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
All models are wrong. Some are useful.
— George Box
TomMasz@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
The more we learn, the more we learn that we need to learn.
tomiant@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I’m still on phlogiston.
unknown1234_5@kbin.earth 2 weeks ago
to be fair, all that only applies for the extremes.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I can make turbulence with my bare hands.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Or some same topic. Read Griffith to feel like you understand electrodynamics, then Jackson to realize you don’t.
tomiant@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
“It only applies for how the Universe works at its most fundamental level”
unknown1234_5@kbin.earth 2 weeks ago
yes, but the bits where its a problem like the meme implies only apply at the extremes.
mrmanager@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
I3 atlas has entered the chat.
ameancow@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No it hasn’t. It broke up around the sun. It’s a rock with ice and shit.
mrmanager@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
I saw some Ai generated videos saying it broke up but there are amateur astronomers filming it as we speak. You are saying it broke up but still looks the same, or? Because someones I dont understand is “broken up” means what I think it does. To me it should be gone if that happened?
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Galileo was actually very bad as science.
rikudou@lemmings.world 2 weeks ago
We have figured out big stuff and small stuff very well! And if it weren’t for the little fact they share the same universe, it would be very good general theories.
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No way I live long enough for us to get to a Grand Unified Field theory. :(
SmokeyDope@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
What in particular do you want to know?
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Didn’t scientists just prove a unified theory was impossible?
ameancow@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, when this meme was first cycled around over 20 years ago I didn’t like it then, I like far, far less now in an age of science denial and every fukkin headline on every fukkin major media site feed saying shit like “SCIENTISTS BAFFLED OVER NEW DISCOVERY OF UNKNOWN SIGNALS” or “SCIENTISTS HORRIFIED BY DISCOVERY THAT BREAKS THE LAWS OF NATURE” and so on.
This shit is the reason we have an anti-vaxxer with no qualifications leading the most powerful nation’s health and human services. This is the shit that feeds people deciding that horse-dewormer is as good as the accumulated knowledge of centuries of study and data. This kind of over-simplification is why we won’t see a dozen scrapped space missions and why people spit on scientific data about how helping people with their gender identity helps prevent suicide and on and on and on.
We have to make knowledge “cool” again, and I have no idea how to do that.