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> Anything that boils an entire branch of science down to something this simple is by definition a scam. Well, is it? Is it not be definition "abstraction" ra
by capableweb 5y ago
> Anything that boils an entire branch of science down to something this simple is by definition a scam.
Well, is it? Is it not be definition "abstraction" rather than "scam"? A scam would involve to purposefully obfuscate the truth or outright lying.
Creating simpler rules around something difficult in order to explain a lot is how a lot of science progresses. Wasn't that what Newton/Einstein or someone else did regarding physics, in order to explain how things work in our universe? Before that we had lots of difficult rules and exceptions, while they come up with something clean that could explain a lot of things instead.
- giraffe_lady 5y agoRight exactly. You could describe the bohr model of the atom as "boiling an entire branch of science down to something this simple" but it is still a useful tool in some contexts. Even if you want to argue that it is worthless and never useful for anything, it is still not a scam.