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I can't begin to tell you how much more likely I would consider a lunar McDonald's publicity stunt than a demonstration that "momentum isn't conserved after all
by Steuard 11y ago
I can't begin to tell you how much more likely I would consider a lunar McDonald's publicity stunt than a demonstration that "momentum isn't conserved after all". The first is so implausible as to be laughable. But the second makes the first look mundane. The future behavior of large groups of people is enormously more complicated and less understood than quantum field theory and the standard model.
- Dylan16807 11y agoI'm not really talking about this specific thing. (Though are you sure it even requires momentum to not be conserved?) I'm just trying to say that our knowledge is incomplete enough that I would very solidly bet on certain "impossible" things being more likely than certain "possible" things. So sure people are bad at judging highly unlikely things, but even possible/impossible is not a reliable criterion. (As long as you don't cheat with hindsight.)