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That’s the thing - you can’t predict the future 100% of the time. What if we float into a dark matter cloud tomorrow and it reverses gravity and we all fly off
by bbor 3y ago
That’s the thing - you can’t predict the future 100% of the time. What if we float into a dark matter cloud tomorrow and it reverses gravity and we all fly off into space, bricks and all? Reasoning is great but we shouldn’t forget the faith element of induction
- WillAdams 3y agoThe approach of the dark matter cloud would be seen in perturbations of orbits and its effects predicted long before they occur. Consider --- if you use traditional physics to completely calculate the orbit of all the planets around the solar system, everything falls out pretty much perfectly --- except for the orbit of Mercury --- it is elliptical and gradually rotates around the sun: - ~5,030 arc seconds of this rotation are from the gravity of the sun - ~530 arc seconds from the other planets - ~43 arc seconds cannot be accounted for by the classic laws of physics, but are perfectly explained by general relativity