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The link doesn’t support the notion that we can’t describe why a bike is self-stable. On the contrary, it simply contradicts one popular explanation and offers
by dahart 2y ago
The link doesn’t support the notion that we can’t describe why a bike is self-stable. On the contrary, it simply contradicts one popular explanation and offers another one. In fact the story is pretty easy to describe: there are oscillating forces acting on a bike that cause it to right itself. The oscillating forces just aren’t accurately described as gyroscopic, which was one of the previous proposals.
We don’t know that there is no “natural language” story and no analogies for either bikes or quanta, what we know is we have some analogies that don’t work. History is full of instances of things we had incorrect stories for, and then found better ones. We have no reason to believe that won’t happen for photons and electrons too.