• Sasha [They/Them]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    One of the most accurate and successful theories in physics contains the single worst prediction and isn’t mathematically rigorous at all.

    Doing calculations with it feels like doing vibes based maths, and you spend a lot of time doing things like: “oops divided by zero guess I’ll cancel it out by multiplying by zero” and it works.

    • Krudler@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Physics in general has not caught up to the fact that locality isn’t a thing. Nobel prizes were handed out for this in I think 22… And people still think the notion of spacetime can be taken seriously. It can’t.