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AlessandroF6587 | 2 years ago

> We know physics very well.

We should tell it to physicists ;-)

That was the same in 1700s. Laws of mechanics were well known and they were convinced that it was just about getting better in using math with it.

Then electricity and magnetism emerged.

Then nuclear physics and quantum theories and relativity.

And we know very well that they don't match up.

And we have anomalies all over in our measurements and no good theory to explain them.

But just using "known" physics theories we have warp drives and warmholes and quantum teleportation.

Going to the moon was something impossible and we accomplished it.

Before the same was for flying or going deep underwater.

Do you need more examples to get some fate?

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taylodl|2 years ago

I think it's very important to understand the Relativity Of Wrong.

https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~dbalmer/eportfolio/Nature%20of%20...

Our knowledge is incomplete, but we can put boundary boxes around what is possible. Just because our theories are incomplete doesn't mean that what we know is wrong. Our knowledge has been extensively tested over the past 100 years.

davidivadavid|2 years ago

> we can put boundary boxes around what is possible

Based on our incomplete knowledge. So we really can't. What would a proof that something is physically impossible look like?