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"Imagine an electron as a spherical cloud of negative charge" sorry man, you lost me on the very first sentence
by m3kw9 4y ago
"Imagine an electron as a spherical cloud of negative charge" sorry man, you lost me on the very first sentence
- Waterluvian 4y agoFine. Oblate spheroidal cloud with a Lakitu in it* There’s many abstractions. None of them are right. They’re useful for different things. You cannot reject the simpler ones because you have adopted a still wrong but more complex one.
- MengerSponge 4y agoAll models are wrong, but some are useful.
- eitau_1 4y agoSome argue that metaphor is more fundamental to science than math.
- asplake 4y agoImagine a spherical cow, then make it really, really tiny