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[-] ch00f@lemmy.world 181 points 1 month 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 75 points 1 month ago
[-] elvith@feddit.org 85 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

Which is also simple and elegant

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

And then string theory. Which . . .

[-] ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 8 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[-] sleen@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

Which is also simple and elegant

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 20 points 1 month ago

TBF the laws of motion are still correct.

[-] lime@feddit.nu 54 points 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago

now do quantum

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