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OP has a realization (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 days ago (4 children)

every scientist on planet earth is wrong about basic physics

Until someone comes up with a unified theory that works for both Newtonian mechanics and quantum mechanics I'd say this is true - we're all wrong about basic physics.

[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It's generally useful to think of these things in more nuanced terms than right or wrong. If/when they are unified, it will be a refinement.

https://hermiene.net/essays-trans/relativity_of_wrong.html

My answer to him was, "John, when people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together."

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Exactly. The Earth is actually shaped like a banana.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago

All models are wrong, some models are useful

[–] Taldan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

When they come up with that model, it'll be able to explain both how protons are formed, and show that the 9th planet, Vulcan, exists...

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago

It's not Newtonian physics, we know Newtonian physics is wrong and have done for about a century.

It's Einstein physics and quantum mechanics that need to be unified. Of course the fact that they don't agree probably indicates that one, or the other, or both is also wrong.

I suspect that the real answer probably has something to do with our misunderstanding in how coarse graining plays inro quantum mechanics, because it just seems sort of a cop out to say that changes smooth out over larger distances. It's just putting an arbitrary boundary between the two realms. It's a good explanation but it also doesn't really make any sense because why would the universe care?