Not really. It’s all about models - we have for normal stuff, but it breaks apart in extreme situations
So clearly the model is fundamentally wrong… Which is pretty cool, because it means FTL travel, antigravity, or travel between dimensions could be possible
But we know now normal shit acts - we have models that work perfectly for 99% of all situations, and we’re probably not going to stop using them. We understand what happens when you throw an object, and it’s a basic equation up until like mock-2 or 3, where our models stop working and we have to switch them out completely
Can you build a model that works for both? Absolutely. It’ll be closer to the truth even. But it’ll be way more complicated for nearly all practical, human scale situations
At the end of the day, a model that describes reality exactly is almost useless… Without simplifications to ignore everything not relevant, just trying shit live would be easier than calculating the prediction
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This has always been true.
qyron@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
To quote someone a lot wiser than myself:
TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id 11 months ago
That’s a paraphrase of a famous Bertrand Russell quote. The original is as follows; “The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”
There’s also the William Butler Yeats corollary; “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”
anonymouse@lemmings.world 11 months ago
“Ignorance is bliss.”
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
No it hasn’t. Many religions and spiritual texts covered all this stuff in just a couple of pages.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Please do show the spiritual texts which cover general and specific relativity.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The Bible says something about the earth and how it is good and the filament of the sky and some shit, at least that’s what I read on the internet. Many fine people on the internet, the best people, but not me but the best people probably. The best people say the earth may be - and I’m not saying it is but they are saying it - they say that the earth may be flat and that doesn’t take much text to cover I have heard.
bigfish@reddthat.com 11 months ago
If you squint a little, the 7 days of creation in Genesis are relativistic-ish. 1 day to separate light from darkness (photons at 1 microsecond after Big Bang), another to create the sky (opaque universe at 370k years), another to form dry land and create life (earth formed, 9.3 billion years, life at ~0.2by later), etc etc. Anyone with a physics degree able to say what fraction of light speed god must have been travelling to make this happen such that only days passed for them between these events?
MxM111@kbin.social 11 months ago
You are missing the point. The creation myths were considered complete. Nothing left to be known.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Deal if you show me the scientific texts that covered these in 500bc since you think we’ve always know how complex this is.
Moops@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Got 'em lol
Sternout@feddit.de 11 months ago
No, before the scientific method was invented, the religious consus was that “All is known”.
veroxii@aussie.zone 11 months ago
“It’s all written down in this here book.”
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And Aristotle was worshipped to the point where if people knew from personal experience that something he said was wrong, they’d assume their own experience was what was mistaken. And this despite him not having any connection to their religion at all.
One example is that they used to think that objects could only have one force acting on it at a time. This could be the “natural force”, which is what makes objects fall when you drop them, or forces resulting from an action being performed on it. As a result, projectiles would travel straight in the direction they were thrown until the natural force took over, at which point they would fall vertically. Somehow this was still popularly believed (by academics at least) well after the catapult had been invented and used in sieges for centuries. It was believed by people who could throw things and observe how they moved with their own eyes.