(May 26, 2021 at 4:52 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote: I love physics. Maxwell's Equations are beautiful. E=mc^2 is profound. And physics never deals with things that don't matter
I feel that the more people understood physics, the fewer people would be hoodwinked by cults or online craziness.
Sure, physicists sometimes talk about wild hypotheses, but it takes both math (a check on internal consistency) and experiment (a check on correspondence with reality) to make a theory.
Then comes the attempts to disprove it, and see if it is burdened with unwarranted baggage.
Physics is the most fundamental of sciences, and does not suffer fools gladly.
I wish I could understand the nuts and bolts. But I can understand to a good degree concepts without being able to do the math. Just like not being able to personally build a combustion engine from scratch, but understand expanding gas, moves the pistions, and crank shaft, distributing energy to the axles and wheels.
I've never been able to grasp the evolutionary clasifications to any degree, but I do understand how Adinine, Guanine, Thymine and Cytosine can lead to countless combinations in evolution.
For me at least, I am smart enough to know, that planes don't run on pixy dust, and humans can't survive the exicution that the alleged Jesus character the bible claims happened.
