@[email protected] to Science [email protected]English • 7 months agoI only want reality breaking stuffimagemessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up1521arrow-down13 cross-posted to: comicstrips
arrow-up1518arrow-down1imageI only want reality breaking stuff@[email protected] to Science [email protected]English • 7 months agomessage-square12fedilink cross-posted to: comicstrips
minus-square@LotarionlinkEnglish27•7 months agoPhysics is mostly finding bugs in the existing physics model of the universe, then patching them
minus-squareAnonStoleMyPantslinkfedilinkEnglish11•7 months agoMore like finding bugs and exploiting the hell out of them.
minus-squarespicy pancakelinkfedilinkEnglish9•7 months agoI thought that was engineering “this amount of bridge material should collapse under its own weight, but we made it into arches/triangles and now it doesn’t 👍”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•7 months agoPhysicist spends a year observing moon to estimate it’s mass, only to rule out the theory that moon is made of Swiss cheese
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️linkfedilinkEnglish3•edit-27 months agoI feel like physics is to the universe, as the lore of a Dark Souls game is to the gameplay. The universe is already built, and physicists just come up with the lore to explain the mechanics after the fact.
Physics is mostly finding bugs in the existing physics model of the universe, then patching them
More like finding bugs and exploiting the hell out of them.
I thought that was engineering
“this amount of bridge material should collapse under its own weight, but we made it into arches/triangles and now it doesn’t 👍”
Physicist spends a year observing moon to estimate it’s mass, only to rule out the theory that moon is made of Swiss cheese
I feel like physics is to the universe, as the lore of a Dark Souls game is to the gameplay. The universe is already built, and physicists just come up with the lore to explain the mechanics after the fact.