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I only want reality breaking stuff (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] Lotarion 27 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Physics is mostly finding bugs in the existing physics model of the universe, then patching them

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

More like finding bugs and exploiting the hell out of them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

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 👍"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Physicist spends a year observing moon to estimate it's mass, only to rule out the theory that moon is made of Swiss cheese

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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.