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[-] ch00f@lemmy.world 183 points 10 months ago

When Newton worked out the laws of motion, he figured they had to be correct because they were so simple and elegant.

He had no idea that relativity was going to come in and fuck his shit up.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 77 points 10 months ago
[-] elvith@feddit.org 86 points 10 months ago

Do you have any idea how fast you were going?

No officer, but I can tell you exactly where I am!

[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 11 points 10 months ago

Which is also simple and elegant

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

And then string theory. Which . . .

[-] ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 8 points 10 months ago

The music of the universe is a symphony, damnit. That’s inherently complex!

It’s a genuine shame the vibrating strings of reality sound like tinnitus to me.

[-] swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

"Noooooooooo!" -Albert Einstein

He did also notice that the planets didn't move quite exactly as he predicted and said "well, God must keep them in place"

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

"Now excuse me I'm going to go behead some counterfeiters."

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 20 points 10 months ago

TBF the laws of motion are still correct.

[-] lime@feddit.nu 54 points 10 months ago

it's not that they are "correct", it's that they are a close enough approximation to work well enough at the scale they're used. it's not like the universe runs on math.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 10 points 10 months ago

I mean relativity is elegant enough in its own right; it's just Newton's laws plus the constancy of the speed of light and the equivalence principle. These two additions are enough to make everything an order of magnitude more fucked up, but that's math's fault, not relativity.

[-] ch00f@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

now do quantum

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