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It's kind of hilarious that the current culture understanding of science is that it's worth pointing out Einstein was "wrong" nearly 70 years after he died. I
by psychphysic 3y ago
It's kind of hilarious that the current culture understanding of science is that it's worth pointing out Einstein was "wrong" nearly 70 years after he died.
I get it, it's click-baity and it gets the plebs to read.
But still makes me chuckle.
Louis CK has a bit about where in Jerusalem Jesus reportedly stumbled on the way to his crucifixion and how there was an orthodox Christian "screaming this is where he fell" two thousand and twenty three years later.
- tommiegannert 3y agoIt's also interesting that, if you become a symbolic leader, it doesn't matter if you're right or wrong: you're inspiring others to continue your work either way. What matters is that he had an idea/opinion, and shared it. Is this what Musk tried to do with Hyperloop?
- hammyhavoc 3y agoIf Musk did indeed try to do that, did he succeed?
- friendzis 3y ago> Is this what Musk tried to do with Hyperloop? No, it was just grift. Hyperloop was "debunked" many times, as in fundamental shortcomings of the proposed idea were discussed.
- o0banky0o 3y agoI feel the point there is that you can propose all day, until you try you never know, and it would have been a damn cool thing to pull off. He hedged a bet
- marginalia_nu 3y agoI get that it's difficult to educate the public about this, but the Bohr-Einstein debate is about as settled as Galileo's leaning tower of Pisa experiment. It's kind of unfortunate that the public perception of quantum physics is very much a hundred years out of date, and is concerned with questions that have been largely settled and are a complete non-controversy in physics.