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So civilization's success means some people sometimes are right about their ideas of reality. Still weird to me that a lifeform in a random little planet in a r

So civilization's success means some people sometimes are right about their ideas of reality. Still weird to me that a lifeform in a random little planet in a random little galaxy claims to have the essence of universal reality figured out. Pointing to our scribbles and how logically concatenated they are just adds comic value in the picture I'm seeing.

k__ 4y ago
If reality behaves the same everywhere, it doesn't matter how random we are placed in the universe.
pizza 4y ago
It gets even funnier - it would appear that the universe is itself struggling at understanding itself; people just appear to be a byproduct of this process ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
samus 4y ago
> Still weird to me that a lifeform in a random little planet in a random little galaxy claims to have the essence of universal reality figured out. Physicists are well aware that their knowledge is not complete. On the other hand, our theories seem to fit reality too well. Physicists are yearning for data that points at new phenomena that would force us to discard the old theories, like relativity and QM forced us in the past. Currently, there seems to be no further good avenue to breakthroughs than staring harder at our data and building bigger experiments and detectors, all the while hoping that the conditions revealing new physics are not magnitudes above what we can ever reproduce on Earth.