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There are three tiers of paradoxes in physics: - these which only contradict "common sense" intuitions/expectations but reality conforms to predictions of the
by anonymfus 6y ago
There are three tiers of paradoxes in physics:
- these which only contradict "common sense" intuitions/expectations but reality conforms to predictions of the theory instead of "common sense", and so these are usually called not real paradoxes like Pascal's hydrostatic paradox;
- these which show us limitations of the models we use to construct them, like two capacitor paradox or black hole information paradox;
- these true contradictions in the nature of reality which when you discover them the universe disappears in the puff of logic and you wake up as a student in the middle of the physics lecture, and that student was Albert Einstein.
A difference between model which we know how to adjust to make more realistic and one we don't know how is about history of physics and not physics itself.