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by SideburnsOfDoom on Friday April 02, 2021 @05:51AM
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> Physicists, on the other hand, didn't invent physics, so they know their current understanding of physics could be wrong.
Technically, yes. but not in the sense that the word "wrong" is generally used. Existing measurements confirm that the current theories are mostly correct to high degree of accuracy, and over a lot of measurements, in a wide range of circumstances.
Current understanding may be proven _incomplete_, but it won't be superseded by something completely different that contradicts those measurements. That would be a non-starter, but it's what people think of when they hear "x is wrong".
e.g. Newtonian mechanics is "wrong" or "incomplete", but it gives very good answers for everyday circumstances. Just not for very small or very fast.
The best essay on this subject is "The Relativity of Wrong", Asimov, 1989
Technically, yes. but not in the sense that the word "wrong" is generally used. Existing measurements confirm that the current theories are mostly correct to high degree of accuracy, and over a lot of measurements, in a wide range of circumstances.
Current understanding may be proven _incomplete_, but it won't be superseded by something completely different that contradicts those measurements. That would be a non-starter, but it's what people think of when they hear "x is wrong".
e.g. Newtonian mechanics is "wrong" or "incomplete", but it gives very good answers for everyday circumstances. Just not for very small or very fast.
The best essay on this subject is "The Relativity of Wrong", Asimov, 1989
https://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.ht...