Why the foundations of physics have not progressed for 40 years

Re:Why the foundations of physics have not progressed for 40... by peteradio on Monday January 13, 2020 @01:47PM (#22037292)

Its not satisfying because its not intuitive. Its not intuitive because our billion years of evolution never exposed use to such experiences to observe. If we limit ourselves to only whats intuitive it will be necessarily limiting to our ability to make new discoveries.

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Re:Why the foundations of physics have not progressed for 40... by ibeckermayer on Monday January 13, 2020 @02:53PM (#22037938)

Let's grant the point that there may be some phenomena in the universe the human mind is not equipped to understand (which is a nuanced position but we can ignore those nuances for now):

Why should we assume that the contradictions in contemporary theories are of this special, inexplicable type? Every era has contradictions, before they are resolved... But they'll only ever be resolved if people are trying to resolve them, meaning that they haven't resigned themselves to the idea that our minds haven't been gifted with the capacity to make sense of our experience.

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