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[–] GardenVarietyAnxiety -3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Science has yet to explain why it happened, or what if anything came before. Those are not "tiny gaps"

[–] jas0n 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Tiny gaps are subjective. Sure.

god has been attributed to everything that science had no explanation for at the time. Earthquakes, weather events, cosmological events, etc. Now.. the general theory has been relegated to one of the very few things that we don't understand with near certainty. While I agree it's not exactly a small gap, but I would argue, in the scale of all of science, microscopic is being generous.

[–] GardenVarietyAnxiety 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

All of current science. We won't know what we don't know until we know everything.

We still burn dinosaur juice that is slowly suffocating us, we poison our fresh water and turn our oceans into plastic hellscapes.

How far in our evolution and understanding do you think we are?

[–] jas0n 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hehe. I think me and you would disagree on a lot of things for sure. But I really like this take. =]

[–] GardenVarietyAnxiety 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, I appreciate it ☺️

Don't get me wrong. I side with science virtually 100% of the time, I just think there is understanding to be had in areas that we currently see as taboo.

[–] jas0n 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It reminded me of this quote from Max Planck (emphasis mine):

As I began my university studies I asked my venerable teacher Philipp von Jolly for advice regarding the conditions and prospects of my chosen field of study. He described physics to me as a highly developed, nearly fully matured science, that through the crowning achievement of the discovery of the principle of conservation of energy it will arguably soon take its final stable form. It may yet keep going in one corner or another, scrutinizing or putting in order a jot here and a tittle there, but the system as a whole is secured, and theoretical physics is noticeably approaching its completion to the same degree as geometry did centuries ago. That was the view fifty years ago of a respected physicist at the time.

Basically, there isn't much left to be discovered in physics, so don't bother. (Good thing he didn't follow that advice.) Then, Einstein comes along and is like.. you know Newton's "laws" of motion? I broke 'em. He also broke the aforementioned "law" of conservation of energy.

So, while we actually do understand the physics of the Big Bang until about the first few milliseconds (not much left to be discovered), we don't know what we don't know.