• Lotarion@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Physics is mostly finding bugs in the existing physics model of the universe, then patching them

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        6 months ago

        I thought that was engineering

        “this amount of bridge material should collapse under its own weight, but we made it into arches/triangles and now it doesn’t 👍”

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      6 months ago

      Physicist spends a year observing moon to estimate it’s mass, only to rule out the theory that moon is made of Swiss cheese