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Actually the physics model to use is typically the simplest one that works, i.e. that gets the job done.
When your job is to drive a truck to the nearest city, the curvature of the Earth is negligible and it’s simpler to assume that the earth is flat, so that is the model that you should use.
As such, yeah, for 99% of use cases, the earth is flat.
If your truck is equipped with GPS then the Earth had better be round in your physics model.
Did you just “UHM ACKtually the earth IS flat!”
Narrator: it was not the last time.
Earth is not round it's imperfect circle
Circle is on a 2d plane, while sphere would be 3d
It took republicans a while to full dismantle everything. Their almost done now so, yay?
I want to help them build that wall, so we can keep them inside, and watch what happens when a government does everything opposite of good.
Also scientists today: Vaccines do not cause autism and actually work.
Yeah but it was 90s scientist who said vaccines caused autism though. Which just invalidates the point this tweet was trying to make.
One single comment by one shitty doctor in a magazine. He didn’t even say that. He basically said ‘some parent thought that maybe their child started to exhibit autism-like symptoms shortly after receiving a vaccine’.
I am not fucking kidding you. That was it! No study, no control groups, no sample size. Nothing. Just one stray comment that is shorter than this one I am writing now and it is the foundation of their entire theory.
It was one “scientist” who by all accounts was a massive fraud and anyone with any semblance of smarts recognised that almost immediately. That the world is full of idiots is the problem.
That was last year.
Now it’s… Tylenol?
I mean if it gets physicians to stop overprescrecribing medicines with it
Sorry but due to new government policy it is illegal to study or even acknowledge weather
weather leads to climate, climate leads to fear…
Fear… leads to sOcIaLiSm!
You mentioned diverse weather conditions in your grant application, and we can’t have that.
THIS ISNT EVEN AN EXAGGERATION
am I old or does nobody remember the name Dolly?
I seem to recall something about her working 9 to 5 and having an arch-nemesis called Jolene.
I feel bad for field researchers that have to do studies on critically endangered species
Imagine trying for days to find a specimen and then end up having to reclassify it as extinct
Free speech is a double edged sword
Nice Try NASA, we all know the truth that Earth is a Donut. This is why cops think the own the planet.
Checkmate, FBI!
So this is a Wiki-style fiction set far in the future, with pan-galactic civilizations and super-AIs, made by people with vast knowledge in astro & quantum physics, IT/Tech and biology, keeping things feasible.
Intriguing.
is that what your satanic sheep told you?
Scientists of tomorrow: Colloidal silver cures all disease unless you are possessed by demons or a witch.
If witch, please turn your self into authorities for immediate incineration.
If demons, please report to your nearest wellness camp for rehabilitation.
Well, while I agree that things are pretty shit and regressive, let’s not downplay the achievements we’ve had in the past 10 years:
These are just the ones I know from the top of my head.
I don’t want to downplay some of the amazing things in this list but i dint think the standard model of physics as made by humans can ever be completed.
What did happen is that something like HB must exists in order to make most of other things work. Now that we know HB is verifiably real we tied up a major loose end.
But there is still many stuff unanswered and a “complete model” would require constant revision.
The standard model of physics is not implying it has the answer to everything, or that there is nothing new to discover. The standard model of physics is the periodic table for fundamental particles. The bits that make up all the other parts.
Thank you. With all the awfull stuff going on the atm I tend to forget all the amazing things we humans still achieve.
Gravity waves detection and cheap solar cells are mind-blowing to me. Gravity waves for just the sensitivity achieved and solar for how rapidly it’s improved. It used be a cute technology used in calculators, impossible to match economically turning a generator or directly burning stuff, and now it’s the default first choice.
These are monetizable inventions, that are allowed, when big money backs them. Climate fuckery threatens incumbent big money, even when it threatens the little people’s property values and cost of living.
Also, it’s engineers who land robots on other planets, not scientists
No reason to pin two bad bitches against each other.
I’m not sure I mentioned anything about landing on other planets… However, engineering and science are closely related.
One of the most important ones that a lot of people use every day are the huge advancements that have been made in creating modern chips. It might not be something new and exciting, but it actually involves very groundbreaking work and huge breakthroughs. Not just the crazy machines that ASML makes, thought to be breaking the laws of physics just years ago. But also advancements in manufacturing, being able to create super advanced 3D structures and large scale manufacturing at a very high level, yet with a surprising consistency in quality and low cost. Not just for ever bigger, more efficient and faster chips, but also things like MEMS at tiny sizes and low cost.
Often it’s taken for granted what we have. People saying stuff to the sentiment that this isn’t the future, everything is boring, we haven’t got flying cars or people living on Mars. But the fact we all got this ultra powerful computer, with a high resolution high framerate self emitting screen, no active cooling, a bunch of sensors, lots of memory and storage and hyper connected to all sorts of networks, all powered by a high capacity high power low wear battery should be mind blowing. And not just that, but it fits in our pockets and they are so cheap everyone has at least one. Just because we’ve chosen to spec our tech tree into the small stuff instead of the large stuff, doesn’t mean we haven’t come a long way.
I think people look at the past at new “inventions” and think that’s the way progress is. New revolutionary stuff. It’s why people often invest in crowd funding of obvious scam products. They want something that changes the game. In reality it’s a lot of little steps that create a big change over time. And imho this has always been the case. We always hear about the Wright brothers “inventing” the airplane. Like they had some magic sauce and thought of something nobody else thought of before. Then made it and bam the world was changed. In reality they didn’t invent anything, they developed it. They made prototypes and iterative refinements. And they were far from the only ones working on the exact same concept. If they didn’t finish first, someone else would have within the same time frame. But the romantic story of two American blokes with the right stuff changing the world all on their own just sounds good.
So let’s also celebrate the thousands of smaller breakthroughs that got us where we are today.
I love your enthusiasm! But as someone who works in semiconductor development, I feel a bit like it is time to abandon this branch of the technology tree for now again. Maybe I am just disheartened from the PhD stress, but where does it really lead to right now? Following up on Moore’s Law right now just seems to promise higher efficiency and lower electricity demands while actually that is mainly greenwashing attempt IMO (lower resolution technologies are more energy and resurce efficient when considering resource demand during production; high device density leads usually to increase of the number of transistors which are operated parallely, so while the single FET is more efficient in dynamic operation, the whole chip might have much higher leakage). At the same time this efficiency is used as justification to just increase the calculation load whithout considering if it is useful (e.g. LLMs). Resources might be better allocated for More than Moore/architectural approaches e.g. for neuromorphic computing to actually reduce the immense AI computing load coming up.
Sorry for the rant, I think I gotta quit my job.
But the fact we all got this ultra powerful computer, with a high resolution high framerate self emitting screen, no active cooling, a bunch of sensors, lots of memory and storage and hyper connected to all sorts of networks, all powered by a high capacity high power low wear battery should be mind blowing.
I think it is still mindblowing in the gaming/simulation realm.
This is something that gets a lot of human passion poured in and (to an extent) gets hardware utilized quite efficiently. It’s also a miracle for number-crunching researchers, or those who’s only hope of investigating something is simulation, heh.
But yeah, it feels like other aspects got drowned in eshittification. My phone would be able to host the whole old internet, pretty much! There should be so much collaboration, but manpower is instead poured into reinventing corporate infrastructure like 100,000 times over?
You’re right, I try to remind myself to marvel at the incredibly cool science we wield every single day.
But I’m also pained because I understand where the “boring future” folks come from too:
Where would we be if all this incredible technology was actually designed for humanity and not simply for profits at all cost? If optimizing for humanity was the target instead of exploiting it?
Smartphones, for instance. Small, networked computers! In your pocket! Wow! I’ve always wanted a pocket laptop! But they sure don’t feel like it. They’re designed to be content (mainly ad) delivery devices and data miners first, and useful machines second.
(There are some tiny niche actual-computer palmtops now which are pretty cool.)
I think that’s the part that gets people kinda depressive about modern science breakthroughs. The coolest stuff, the working folk don’t even get to tangibly feel much benefit from.
Discovery is locked behind paywall research journals and implementation is marketed in the interests of capital and used against us to make us work harder for longer hours for less pay.
What’s happening to space is a VERY stark illustration of all this. NASA unifying humanity and working globally on projects like the ISS was INSPIRING.
Now it’s all about private interests and their stupid desires, like space hotels for the elite.
I bet we’d marvel at technology designed for human beings, and not sheer exploitation.
Though overused; medication that effectively combats eating disorders.
I’d argue underused / inappropriately prescribed by social class. There are millions who could benefit from them who have poor access, while if you have money the Rx just gets thrown readily at your feet.
Extreme longevity shows serious advancements (but in mice only).
Common let’s pile up some more good stuff!
“Scientists”, media, politicians, etc… today: I’ve created an artificial intelligence!!!
Actual scientists: The planet is being destroyed.
People: I don’t know who to believe.
Seriously “science” is so full of grifters that I’m not surprised flat-earthism is flourishing.
Yeah there’s a problem with how science is portrayed to the general population. Most science is ”boring”. People want to hear about aliens, time travel and parallel universes.
Graphs showing that we should cut down our meat consumption is boring.
Stories about how a secret world state (possibly extradimensional lizards) is hiding a big ice wall from us is exciting.
And robots. Why are there so few news and stories about robots 😥
pretending that generation didn’t hobble science for anti-intellectual cultists is just bullshit
what happened to stem cell research in the USA exactly?
We lost about a decade of research because of that bullshit. At lesat.
Wasn’t it bush that shut it of to get fanatic religious votes?
that it was, Valmod
Lo, I remember mine father watching him announce it on cable news while I wisely played Tekken on ps1 instead
it sucked, my dad explained all the medical research that was going to be impacted
i mained Jack as was the style of the time
sad Jesus noises
Wrong. Flat Earthers do think the Earth is round.
The rest of us think it’s spherical.
I work with someone who believes the flat earth bullshit. Our company makes pharmaceutical actives, pretty much everyone there has degrees in science. Yet one guy persists with “the earth is flat”. I’m incredulous over the willful ignorance toward reality.
How wonderful would it be if he was messing with you the whole time.
Latest and greatest flat earth is that Antarctica is a wall that encircles us all. Well, it encircles the land that us normies are allowed to know about. Beyond the Antarctic wall lies a vastness of land that us normies are kept unaware of. I am not sure why. It was something to do with the riches of the secret land. Also, no one knows how far the land stretches. So the earth is flat but we don’t know how far it goes so we don’t know what the shape is really.
Just to be perfectly clear: I am not a flat earther and I don’t believe any of the above. It’s a load of (very entertaining) nonsense. Keep the documentaries coming please!
I have also heard the story, that the earth is in fact a sphere, but the rest of it is covered in ice also known as the antarctica
Oblong spheroid to be pedantic.
I have an oblong hemorrhoid
Second part should be “And climatechange is real.”
Third part should be, “We pasteurize milk for a good fucking reason.”
Scientists once again remind you to not swim in shit.
The CDC told me it was ok. Polio is good for you because it prevents autism.
Polio is good for you because it prevents autism.
I guess that is technically true. Can’t have any autistic children if youre dead.
For the last time?! These “modern scientists” are sure not history researchers then!
“for the last time…so far”
mrrrreow
Internet was a mistake. It gave all the anti science people and crackpots a platform for their ideas.
Yes, the vaccines are… Are you feeding that baby unpasteurized milk?!? What the fuck, guys?
cannon_annon88@lemmy.today 6 months ago
Or you could say Scientific CONgress…
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