Re:Has Physics Gotten Something Really Important Really Wrong?
by ankurdhama on Sunday July 10, 2016 @11:27AM
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If that is so then why don't we just accept the religious answers to these big questions? Some supernatural entity is in the control of everything that's the answer and we are done. The goal of any science should be to answer questions such that those answers can help us solve the problem humanity faces and not just make us feel proud sitting in our chairs that we know answers.
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Re:Has Physics Gotten Something Really Important Really Wrong?
by megalodon on Sunday July 10, 2016 @12:03PM
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I think you are generalising my comment quite a bit, it was just a reaction to the poster above.
We are never "done", that's kind of the point I was trying to convey. I completely agree that we should use science to help us deal with our current problems. Once we understand more about our world and ourselves, we will automatically get better at solving them. I'm just against the whole short-term, instant results way of thinking.