Something deeply silly about this “we don’t know how aerodynamic lift works” article doing the rounds. Mystery is not in the phenomenon but in people’s weird expectations of what “explanations” ought to be able to accomplish. Cc @gravity_levityhttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-one-can-explain-why-planes-stay-in-the-air/ …
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Okay, this is sounding like it is actually a fun idea. You should email me.
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The thing is that lay expectations of "explanations" is some sort of ontologically absolute, finite and closed causality/agency account of *everything* about X. They want religious magic explanations not a sort of moving target partial paradigm with predictive power thing
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Yeah, I think that for this reason it could be fun to write a regular column that specifically looks at extremely well-understood things, and shows how they are not "understood" in that sense. That the very concept of "understand" is relative.
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