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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure how far back this post is referencing, but Geologists actually knew it was true for a very long time, but spent decades trying to figure out the mechanism to make it work. It was to the point that Wegener's theory of continental drift, which was known to not be accurate or possible, was still taught because of the astounding level of confidence they had that "how" it was happening was not right, but everything else was.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It's just like the atomic model - in High School you learn Bohr's model (central nucleus with electrons in circular orbits) which is wrong, but is helpful. Then, in college/uni you learn the quantum model. Different levels of abstraction for different use-cases.

[–] Shrek 5 points 2 years ago

Abstraction is a beautiful thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And still today we know our current models of physics are incomplete, but mostly accurate.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

"like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff"

[–] jerrimu -4 points 2 years ago

It's a terrible system, it's why we have so many people with high school educations talking about Trans people.

[–] sputtersalt 9 points 2 years ago

I don't get why they would be mad

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

I bet the second a good world map was drawn all the geologists collectively said "wait a minute...*

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