Physics maybe, but all sciences? This is is some serious physics determinism --- obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/435/
Funny enough, there's an even more related xkcd for this page: https://xkcd.com/2034/
Good one!
A 9-line summary of textbook physics
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Re: A 9-line summary of textbook physics
#12Physics maybe, but all sciences? This is is some serious physics determinism --- obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/435/
> The nine lines contain physics, chemistry, material science, biology, medicine, geology, astronomy, engineering and computer science.
I have doubts that these 9 lines describe computer science. As I interpret it, computer science is founded on pure mathematics and is not a physical or empirical science. Computer science deals with perfect abstract mathematical objects like numbers, sets, quantification, recursion, infinities, etc.
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#13> About 18 particles > About 25 numbers Excellent science here!
You can't contradict this. Nature is perfect.
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#15Fun fact: all physics experiments ever made can be described by 9 lines, without any deviation between theory and observations. The 9 lines are sufficient to describe quantum physics and gravity. It seems that the 9 lines even contain all (update: natural) sciences, not only physics. Finding an exception to the 9 lines will make you famous. So will the discovery of a 10th line. Thousands of researchers work towards t…
This is satire right? You might be getting downvotes because it’s not clear if you’re serious, and those claims seem quite ridiculous at face value.
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#16> About 18 particles > About 25 numbers Excellent science here!
Sounds like my tax declaration... where they ask for the number of my children.
Re: A 9-line summary of textbook physics
#17Fun fact: all physics experiments ever made can be described by 9 lines, without any deviation between theory and observations. The 9 lines are sufficient to describe quantum physics and gravity. It seems that the 9 lines even contain all (update: natural) sciences, not only physics. Finding an exception to the 9 lines will make you famous. So will the discovery of a 10th line. Thousands of researchers work towards t…
This is just straight wrong. There is no computer in the world that can predict the outcome of, say, a drug trial from these equations.
If your “science” requires an impossible computer to work then it’s not science it’s faith.
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#18> About 18 particles > About 25 numbers Excellent science here!
Observation is part of science, but we're also limited by it. There's a lot of deeper workings that we just can't get at yet, maybe ever.
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#19I opened a volume of the books linked in the page, and found this: « Learning allows us to discover what kind of person we can be. Learning widens knowledge, improves intelligence and provides a sense of achievement. Therefore, learning from a book, especially one about nature, should be efficient and enjoyable. Avoid bad learning methods like the plague! Do not use a marker, a pen or a pencil to highlight or underli…
no there are a lot of old academics that think this way, it’s almost like a form of self-flagellation… if you’re having fun then you’re not learning hard enough
one professor I knew like this (decades ago now) was the type of person that would violently throw chalk at students with the gall to not hang on every word he was saying
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#20Physics maybe, but all sciences? This is is some serious physics determinism --- obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/435/
It's the lowest level. Applying this to, say, medicine is like trying to understand a React app in terms of a Turing Machine. It's involved, but it doesn't help because of all of the extra rules (which are not fundamental properties of the Universe or of mathematics) that we add on top. CORS isn't a fundamental law of the Universe, but all major browsers enforce it, so you have to deal with it.