• bluGill@kbin.social
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    We don’t have any other workable idea, and there doesn’t appear to be enough physics we don’t know to allow for anything else

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      1 year ago

      You know, Max Planck was told not to pursue physics because there wasn’t much left to discover anyways. By a physics professor. 150 years ago.

      You’re statement is based on incomplete knowledge. There is now way to know how much there’s left to know.

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        1 year ago

        Believing that everything that needs to be known is totalitarian by definition.

        Once truth becomes a known quantity, Correct Action becomes objectively calculable, and non-compliance to the Correct Action is seen as completely devoid of value.

        This is why totalitarianism tends to become dictatorship.

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      1 year ago

      Quantum theory was born of people filling in the corners of what was believed to be a complete physics.

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        Right and now that hole was filled in. We have less holes left, and we often have characterized the holes even though we don’t understand them.