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Scientists aren't deified because people assume they're all knowing? As for scientism, there's a lot of people in this thread who essentially said "We could ha
by kosievdmerwe 6y ago
Scientists aren't deified because people assume they're all knowing?
As for scientism, there's a lot of people in this thread who essentially said "We could have known it wouldn't work by basic application of conservation of momentum". Or some other principal held to the standard of absolute truth.
Our knowledge of the world is faulty and incomplete. All scientific knowledge is subject to tweaking or replacement based on experimental evidence. Not the other way around.
We have models and guesses of how the world works, we don't have its source code.
- andi999 6y agoActually the whole point why this EM drive is interesting actually is that the measurements contradicted conservation of momentum. Otherwise having a small effect not contradicting any established physics is basically worthless.
- kosievdmerwe 6y agoSure, but if the contradiction bore out, then what's false (at least in some edge cases) is established physics not the experiment result. The strength of the established physics just means that there is an extremely high chance that the EM drive is experimental error, especially with the small effect size, rather than something novel.