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Relativity started with "what if we thought about it this way?". Just saying.
by Qz 16y ago
Relativity started with "what if we thought about it this way?". Just saying.
- robryan 16y agoYeah part of the process, because of this new paper someone might get an idea they wouldn't have had to expand upon it. You see articles stating that something broke the laws of physics when really it just didn't fit our current model of understanding.
- pyre 16y ago> You see articles stating that something broke the > laws of physics when really it just didn't fit our > current model of understanding. It 'broke the law' in so much as it proved that the law was a 'broken' law (aka incomplete). It wasn't an action that violated a law, but a law that was rendered 'broken' by an action.
- rubidium 16y agoYes, exactly. That's why it's worth talking about in the first place. I wasn't downplaying the paper, just observing what I could about the current strength of its claims. It's more of a Gedankenexperiment with some guiding equations, which it seems the author stated as his intent in the nytimes article.