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Surely it's obvious even before finishing high school that everything you are taught in science is at best a partial truth and that this is especially true whe
by ninalanyon 2y ago
Surely it's obvious even before finishing high school that everything you are taught in science is at best a partial truth and that this is especially true when you are young and inexperienced. Newton's laws are an approximation to reality at low velocities so we learnt them knowing that it was not the whole story but was good enough for a huge amount of work. In my Applied Physics degree (50 years ago) we didn't do General Relativity, there simply wasn't time to learn the relevant mathematics as well as everything else so we made do with Special Relativity. And so on.
I do agree though that some teachers do give the impression that what they tell you is the whole truth, perhaps I was lucky in mine being mostly more enlightened.