GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 7 months agoI only want reality breaking stufflemmy.worldimagemessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1553arrow-down13 cross-posted to: comicstrips@lemmy.world
arrow-up1550arrow-down1imageI only want reality breaking stufflemmy.worldGreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square14fedilink cross-posted to: comicstrips@lemmy.world
minus-squareLotarion@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·7 months agoPhysics is mostly finding bugs in the existing physics model of the universe, then patching them
minus-squareAnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·7 months agoMore like finding bugs and exploiting the hell out of them.
minus-squarespicy pancake@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·7 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-squarehemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·7 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🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·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.