Friends, Tweeters, Hive of Minds, what are some causal relationships where (a) scientists are *very* confident that the causal relationship exists and (b) the underlying mechanism remains quite unclear
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Why you say dis
cause it was purely phenomenological.. the math worked, but we didn't know how gravity "reached" out and communicated it was there .. later einstein developed a gravitational field theory that answered this
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of course this rabbit hole goes arbitrarily deep
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Historical cases work! This is just to make a point in my philosophy of science lecture tomorrow. We've talked a bit about Newton and gravity before so it'll be a good one to refer back to. Thanks!
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I mean the early history of astronomy from [Plato’s 2 sphere universe —> homocentric spheres —> Ptolemaic —> Copernicus —> Brahe] was just mathematical devices without underlying mechanisms save for Aristotle’s homocentric spheres
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