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>> We know about things unimaginably distant in scale or time -- like quarks and the Big Bang Oh, we do? That's funny, Afaik quarks still confuse physicists b
by olivercreashe 10y ago
>> We know about things unimaginably distant in scale or time -- like quarks and the Big Bang
Oh, we do?
That's funny, Afaik quarks still confuse physicists because they behave erratically and appear to be composed of other particles.
And the big bang is simply an assumption that makes the cosmological model work well for our human brains, but it is not how the universe started specifically.
We don't know jack shit, that's the bottom line, and we like to pretend we do.
- peller 10y ago"We live in a culture of casual certitude. This has always been the case, no matter how often that certainty has failed. Though no generation believes there’s nothing left to learn, every generation unconsciously assumes that what has already been defined and accepted is (probably) pretty close to how reality will be viewed in perpetuity. And then, of course, time passes. Ideas shift. Opinions invert. What once seemed reasonable eventually becomes absurd, replaced by modern perspectives that feel even more irrefutable and secure—until, of course, they don’t." http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27068734-but-what-if-we-re-wrong-thinking-about-the-present-as-if-it-were-the-pa http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27068734-but-what-if-we-r...
- babyrainbow 10y agoYes. We were, are and will always be living in "modern times"...
- 77pt77 10y ago> That's funny, Afaik quarks still confuse physicists because they behave erratically and appear to be composed of other particles. I'd really like a source for the composite quark claim.
- justinator 10y agoWell, String Theory.
- eternauta3k 10y agoWhat evidence is there for quarks being composite?
- 77pt77 10y agoCouldn't have given a worse answer. 1. String theory has no experimental backing. 2. It doesn't posit that currently fundamental particles become composite. For a decent explanation see: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/38767/relation-between-quarks-and-strings https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/38767/relation-b...
- dwaltrip 10y agoYou might consider the The Relativity of Wrong: http://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm http://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm Sure, maybe we know jack shit. But we know unfathomably more jack shit than in previous ages.