TBF the laws of motion are still correct.
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ch00f@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
When Newton worked out the laws of motion, he figured they had to be correct because they were so simple and elegant.
He had no idea that relativity was going to come in and fuck his shit up.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 20 hours ago
lime@feddit.nu 20 hours ago
it’s not that they are “correct”, it’s that they are a close enough approximation to work well enough at the scale they’re used. it’s not like the universe runs on math.
ragingHungryPanda@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com 20 hours ago
He did also notice that the planets didn't move quite exactly as he predicted and said "well, God must keep them in place"
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
“Now excuse me I’m going to go behead some counterfeiters.”
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 20 hours ago
I mean relativity is elegant enough in its own right; it's just Newton's laws plus the constancy of the speed of light and the equivalence principle. These two additions are enough to make everything an order of magnitude more fucked up, but that's math's fault, not relativity.
ch00f@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
now do quantum
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
And then there was quantum.
elvith@feddit.org 20 hours ago
Do you have any idea how fast you were going?
No officer, but I can tell you exactly where I am!
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
“Noooooooooo!” -Albert Einstein
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
Which is also simple and elegant
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
And then string theory. Which . . .
ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 13 hours ago
The music of the universe is a symphony, damnit. That’s inherently complex!
It’s a genuine shame the vibrating strings of reality sound like tinnitus to me.