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An interesting corollary to this is "Where do trees get their mass?" Veritasium has a fun video demonstrating how unintuitive this is: https://www.youtube.com
by JshWright 9y ago
An interesting corollary to this is "Where do trees get their mass?"
Veritasium has a fun video demonstrating how unintuitive this is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KZb2_vcNTg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KZb2_vcNTg
- StavrosK 9y agoI love that you used the word "unintuitive" rather than imply that people were uneducated for thinking it. Good way of thinking about knowledge.
- lostconfused 9y agoBecause it's not that simple. Every moment of a person's life adds to their sum total of knowledge but it's very limited. Simply being a living human isn't going to give you a good understanding of quantum mechanics or general relativity, but it will give you some basic idea of things falling towards the ground. Something being unintuitive doesn't mean just that the individual lacks knowledge but that there is very little chance that this knowledge would be encountered in ones life time at all without making an effort to gather a deeper understanding.