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Re:Do climate models predict extreme weather? by labster on Saturday January 08, 2022 @11:21PM (#29860064)
This exactly. After a year of high school physics and a year of mechanics and electrodynamics, they finally get around to telling you: that was kind of all lies, here’s relativity. And then a month later they do it again for quantum, and finally admit they don’t know what is really going on. But Newtonian mechanics is useful!
Re:Do climate models predict extreme weather? by naasking on Sunday January 09, 2022 @08:56AM (#29863231)
Simplified models are not lies, they are true within a defined domain of discourse. That's not what you were describing.
Re:Do climate models predict extreme weather? by loopz on Sunday January 09, 2022 @12:36AM (#29860523)
They should state the truth in first year: We have absolutely no final answers for you, and these years will soon be forgotten. You'll earn more earlier taking any job now. Education is overrated in business anyway.
Re:Do climate models predict extreme weather? by Retric on Sunday January 09, 2022 @07:13AM (#29862587)
I think we can reasonably treat collage students as adults capable of making informed decisions. Most people failing to finish the physics PHD end up in reasonable places, it’s hardly the trap most people getting a 200,000+$ history degree would be in.