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Physics is one science where the seemingly impossible winds up being possible all the time. Strange to think people spend a good portion of their lives studying

• 77pt77 10y ago
  >Physics is one science where the seemingly impossible winds up being possible all the time. Quite on the contrary.
• wyager 10y ago
  Actually, physicists are desperate for an upset that will disprove the standard model. The standard model is, in many ways, too good, in the sense that it predicts most (but certainly not all) measurable phenomena to very high accuracy, but is not a complete theory. So we're looking for examples that break the standard model so we can figure out how to expand it to be complete, but we're having trouble finding useful mispredictions by the standard model. A few areas where the standard model is deficient: dark matter, matter/antimatter asymmetry, hierarchy problem.
• Manishearth 10y ago
  > where the seemingly impossible winds up being possible all the time. No, it's where the possible is often portrayed as impossible by popular reporting all the time.