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As I've heard that joke, it's the engineer who suggests measuring displacement and the physicist who wants to assume the cow is a sphere. The joke is that phys
by sciurus 7y ago
As I've heard that joke, it's the engineer who suggests measuring displacement and the physicist who wants to assume the cow is a sphere. The joke is that physicist's models oversimplify reality.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow
- bumby 7y agoMaybe I got I wrong, but then again I originally heard it from a physicist so they may have deliberately changed it :)
- Ericson2314 7y ago(Theoretical) physicists would throw out data to simplify, engineers would throw out theory.