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Bored medieval philosophers speculated on how many angels could dance on the head of a pin. Bored modern philosophers peculate on string theory. Neither put for
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 8y ago
Bored medieval philosophers speculated on how many angels could dance on the head of a pin. Bored modern philosophers peculate on string theory. Neither put forth experimentally testable hypotheses, so one is about as scientific as the other.
- 21 8y agoWell, if angels are physical in the slightest, modern philosophers have computed an upper bound of how many of them could dance on the head of a pin, before they collapse into a black hole
- lomnakkus 8y agoI suppose that's true in some sense, but at least string theorist have done some interesting math? (It may not be math that applies to the real world, but math being math is eternally valid as long as the axioms hold... and sometimes you get surprising applications later on.)