GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 year agoI only want reality breaking stufflemmy.worldimagemessage-square14linkfedilinkarrow-up1556arrow-down13 cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1553arrow-down1imageI only want reality breaking stufflemmy.worldGreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square14linkfedilink cross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareLotarion@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·1 year agoPhysics is mostly finding bugs in the existing physics model of the universe, then patching them
minus-squareAnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 year agoMore like finding bugs and exploiting the hell out of them.
minus-squarespicy pancake@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 year 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-down1·1 year 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🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-21 year 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.