Okay so you clearly don't actually understand what I was talking about
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Aya62335284 and
And actually you owned yourself here too, because Einstein's great downfall in later life was his absolute refusal to "wrap his mind around" the "other way of knowing" represented by quantum mechanics and being humiliatingly proven wrong by experiment
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Aya62335284 and
The apparent inconsistency between relativity and quantum physics - the lack of a single "way of knowing" that works at all scales for all things, a "Theory of Everything" - is famously the status quo in physics Sorry if you don't like it but science is not about your feelings
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Replying to @arthur_affect @izs and
"Sorry if you don't like it but science is not about your feelings." Well done. Also, 2 + 2 = 4.
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Replying to @Aya62335284 @izs and
Sometimes, when you put two grams of something with another two grams of something, you get five grams
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Aya62335284 and
And your yelling about how this offends you aesthetically and you hate the shitty busted measuring device you're using and you deserve to have Platonic knowledge of the true mass of all things to infinite sigfigs is just feelings and it's not the important thing
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Aya62335284 and
I'll disagree with you there - I actually find feelings to be enormously important, and something that should be taken seriously in political and academic discussions. Meaning comes from feelings after all. But as always, we have to know what we're talking about.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @Aya62335284 and
Well THIS GUY'S feelings in particular are just very annoying
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
I'll actually take this further What people like this are mad about isn't truth, it's comfort Their sense of the world based on half understood textbook knowledge is very important to them and they don't want it disturbed by ideas they don't understand
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Aya62335284 and
Yeah, that's absolutely on point. The experience of a world where understanding is always slipping through your fingers is, after all, discomfiting. I'm not happy about it either.
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I talked before about the episode of Jim Henson's Dinosaurs where Charlyne begins trying to prove the Earth is round rather than flat and the government charges her with heresy
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
And Earl goes on TV and starts demanding she stop this nonsense and come home at once With his lower third caption reading "IRATE FATHER"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
And then he goes on about how if the authorities say she's wrong she must be wrong because they know better than us because that's what they're for And the whole world is built on the understanding that they know what's best and who'd want to tear all that down
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