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>CURRENT YEAR
>STILL know no more about gravity than some perma-virgin in the 17th century
Is it time we accept that we have arrived at the physiological limits of our nervous systems and their ability to formulate increasingly distant abstractions?
Why do so many assume that knowledge is just empirical and will always progress? That may be true for the simple observations of the natural world that we have so far made, but perhaps we will never be able to tackle and unlock certain problems - they will remain mysteries until the end of this specie.
Enjoy being a race of stunted brainlets.
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>>8495345
People are arrogant and fearful.
The models we have work very well for general purposes. There's no reason to think all of it is fundamentally wrong because a couple pieces don't fit quite right.
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>>8495371
But the current models strike me as pretty damn clumsy... Shit, using something like probability densities to try an explain the distribution of a theoretical negative charge? Fucking wave-particle duality? Broad incompatibility between small-scale models and macro-scale models?
So sure, coincidentally a few of these models happened to work and allowed us to build a fucking iPhone, but there hasn't been any new paradigm of understanding proposed since the 1920s...
Why is it so difficult to accept that we have arrived at a limit?
Just like your dog will never learn calculus, humans may never develop an understanding deeper than what we already have.
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>>8495345
shut up you fucking faggot
i fucking HATE people like you
scumbags who claim there is a limit to what is possible
They used to say we could never build a machine that could fly. They used to say the earth was the center of the universe. They used to say we could never make realistic-looking 3D animated water and hair.
Fuck you.
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>>8495391
>Why is it so difficult to accept that we have arrived at a limit?
>Just like your dog will never learn calculus, humans may never develop an understanding deeper than what we already have.
So are you making a conjecture or an argument. Because you speak of this as if it were truth with absolutely no evidence/logic/reason.
We know a fuck ton more about gravity than we did in the 17th century. Are you unaware of Einstein? Higgs Boson?
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>>8495345
>We know everything we're ever going to know so let's just stop trying!
Leave /sci/, you don't belong here. Go apply for a cabinet position with Trump or something, idiot.
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>>8495394
>They used to say the earth was the center of the universe
Technically this is still true, its just that everywhere else is the centre as well
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>>8495394
>Realistic 3D water and hair
This is still impossible
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>>8496780
>D-DRUMPF
What a low energy post. Sad!
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>>8495345
>>CURRENT YEAR
>>STILL know no more about gravity than some perma-virgin in the 17th century
Einstein came after Newton
GR describes gravity better than classical mechanics
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>>8495345
>>STILL know no more about gravity than some perma-virgin in the 17th century
>what is general relativity
>what is quantum gravity
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>>8495345
>but perhaps we will never be able to tackle and unlock certain problems
But what if we can?
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>>8495345
>>8495345
No. We are only limited to the precision of our measurements. If you knew anything about the representations of lie algebras over ring modules, you would realize that we have already likely uncovered the structure of all the fundamental particles, in viewing the root lattice of the exceptional lie group E8. The thing is, is that this lattice suggests that we have yet to observe two final fundamental particles, mostly due to energy limitations in particle accelerators. If we ever do find these two remaining particles, we will have a complete unification of the fields of general relativity and quantum mechanics.
Just because YOU are too dumb to come up with these ideas, doesn't mean teams of mathematicians, physicists and programmers haven't unearthed all of these representations of lie algebras and uncovered the miraculously applicable super symmetry groups which can be used to solve the greatest scientific dilemma of the past century.
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