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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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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@meaningness so gradually that I hardly noticed. And I could have sworn ~5 years ago that he was impossible to understand.) - 5 more replies
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I think this unconscious expectation has severely limited me in my own life actually. Do you believe such absolute explanations about X are impossible?
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