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[–] 52 points 1 year ago (12 children)

One of the most accurate and successful theories in physics contains the single worst prediction and isn't mathematically rigorous at all.

Doing calculations with it feels like doing vibes based maths, and you spend a lot of time doing things like: "oops divided by zero guess I'll cancel it out by multiplying by zero" and it works.

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    control dynamics

    Well, that's a relief! That's a completely different kind of engineering than I studied, so I can stop being worried that there was something I was supposed to have learned but didn't.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Physics in general has not caught up to the fact that locality isn't a thing. Nobel prizes were handed out for this in I think 22... And people still think the notion of spacetime can be taken seriously. It can't.

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    locality. what was it supposed to be? and why doesn't it actually exist? what model "replaces" it, if any?

    maybe the meaning of spacetime isn't obvious either, and I just misunderstand what it means

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