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I think a 100 years of now 17-decimal accuracy is fine. Maybe we do need a Copernican revolution. But how many areas of physics and science can we say that? A

by meroes 5y ago

I think a 100 years of now 17-decimal accuracy is fine. Maybe we do need a Copernican revolution. But how many areas of physics and science can we say that? A lot. I think for sure the idea of measurement as a passive activity revealing pre existing values is gone though. No matter what happens. How long was that a paradigm?

credit_guy 5y ago
> Copernican revolution The guy who did the hard work was Kepler. Copernicus's model of the solar system was just idle speculation. Also widely off the mark (it had epicycles, lots of thyem, twice as many as the Ptolemaic model [1]). Kepler sifted through the mountains of astronomical observations made by Tycho Brahe over many decades, and used the latest cutting edge math tools available (logarithms) to come up with his 3 laws. The true revolution is science was obviously Isaac Newton. But if he had some giants on whose shoulders to stand, they were Kepler and Brahe, not Galileo and Copernicus. [1] http://tofspot.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-great-ptolemaic-smackdown.html http://tofspot.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-great-ptolemaic-smac...