We've got it all worked out
We've got it all worked out
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"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."
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Gravity too
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Also magnetism
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As one of the great scholars of our time has said:
"Nobody knows what a magnet is."
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I think it's in the list as "heavy stuff".
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I took that to mean singularities
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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 even since this meme first made rounds, 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 and we have created conditions close to beginning of the universe in labs and discovered new particles that validate decades or centuries of theorizing.
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.
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We still lack verification on right-handed neutrinos and the exact wave function for helium.
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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.
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Turbulence can go to hell and take Reynolds numbers with them
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A-fuckin-men brother
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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.
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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)
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At first I was like, what? That is not funny!
But then I saw the /s and I was like, HOLY SHIT IS THE BEST JOKE I'VE EVER HEARD!!
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This is old. We got turbulence now at least.
Edit: i mean the discovery of turbulence calculation about 10, 15 years ago.
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I thought that referred to the navier stokes millennium problem
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Look I ain't calling you no turbulance, if you need help, call 911.
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All models are wrong. Some are useful.
— George Box
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The more we learn, the more we learn that we need to learn.
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I'm still on phlogiston.
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to be fair, all that only applies for the extremes.
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I can make turbulence with my bare hands.
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Or some same topic. Read Griffith to feel like you understand electrodynamics, then Jackson to realize you don't.
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"It only applies for how the Universe works at its most fundamental level"
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I3 atlas has entered the chat.
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No it hasn't. It broke up around the sun. It's a rock with ice and shit.
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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 sometimes I dont understand if "broken up" means what I think it does. To me it should be gone if that happened?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZCQFAokJQE
There are still daily articles from Loeb talking about it. This one is from a few hours ago:
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/magnificent-images-of-jets-around-3i-atlas-e4ad8acc723c
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Galileo was actually very bad at science.
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.
No way I live long enough for us to get to a Grand Unified Field theory. :(
Anything in particular you want to know about that only a GUT might provide? or do you just want to see what it looks like?
Didn't scientists just prove a unified theory was impossible?
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.