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So I’m pretty fascinated with the study of physics. The way mathematics is able to explain gravity, motion, time, all of it.
But the further I delve and the more I learn, the harder it is to ignore how many errors, corrections, and assumptions there actually are that are just supposed to be accepted.
Einstein’s relativity fully explains the shape and the orbits/motions of planets and galaxies, until we realized that we can observe galaxies that are so far away that the light they emit couldn’t have existed yet at the time the Big Bang should have happened.
“Whoops, guess there’s dark energy pushing everything apart faster than the speed of light. We can’t define it or measure it, but it must exist within the theory of relativity for these observations to be true.”
Or until we find out that particles don’t behave in a way that fits the model.
“Whoops, guess there’s quantum relativity, and a lot of it is just random or changes depending on whether or not it’s being observed.”
I’m not someone who thinks space is fake or the earth is flat or the creation story is true, and I obviously understand that our understanding of science evolves as we learn more, but there is actually quite a lot that is easily observable that doesn’t fit with Einstein’s theory of relativity yet we all are still expected to just agree that it’s correct
I obviously understand that our understanding of science evolves as we learn more
The nature of our understanding of reality itself evolves.
This is why when new true discoveries are found that are disparate from the most commonly held understandings of reality there is violent backlash against the bringer of this new understanding. There are many examples of this.
I guess I’m trying to say that, from my perspective, there are enough “modifications” that we simply have to accept even if we don’t understand them that it’s worth questioning the validity of the full model itself. If Einstein’s equations only work in 60% of known situations while the other 40% just have to have an unknown “variable” that must exist even if we can’t measure it, I can be on board with questioning his theories as a whole
that our understanding of science evolves
Not when it comes to covid vaccines!
are you talking abut the Methusala star? Because their is plenty of reasons those age projections could be off / skewed.
Not specifically. We see galaxies that are 40 billion light years away when they couldn’t have existed 15 billion years ago. Einstein’s theory of general relativity was working perfectly fine until we made that realization, then all of a sudden there’s a dark energy that expands space faster than the speed of light. We can’t measure it or observe it but we just accept that it must exist because it’s the only way our current model can exist, rather that questioning whether the current model is accurate at all
stupid layman question..... how can we know that specific light is 40 billion years old?
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