> I'm not even going to go into what "intelligible" theories is even supposed to mean The idea seems silly now because we know that fundamental physics isn’t d

> I'm not even going to go into what "intelligible" theories is even supposed to mean The idea seems silly now because we know that fundamental physics isn’t directly intelligible to us. But before Newton, the hard-headed ‘scientific’ approach was to analyze nature without any appeal to magical hidden forces, action at a distance, etc. etc. Turns out that’s not possible, but who could have known?