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compwagon t1_j2avd43 wrote

Reply to comment by TychaBrahe in Before Newton, how did people explain falling apples? by maugustus

If you suspend what we obviously know, that was actually a very cleverly thought out theory. Really interesting to see how people thought and understood things back then.

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cristiano-potato t1_j2b38nd wrote

Seems like it’s a good example for how a totally wrong conceptualization of a situation can still be very congruent with what you can observe easily

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Mr_Brightwell t1_j2b3q0o wrote

Yeah, and if we have done it once we are probably doing it again, right now.

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kuroisekai t1_j2bgu7c wrote

Very very true. Nowadays many promonent physicists stake their careers on stuff like String Theory or Multiverse Theory, when neither have any direct evidence to back these up, other than "the math makes sense". That's why it's very refreshing when you hear scientists in places like CERN say "we hope we're wrong because that means we get to make new physics". And also why this year's Nobel Prize for Physics is a big deal: they managed to prove Einstein wrong as well.

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