When I took Physical Chemistry, the first thing the professor said to us was, “Up until now, most things you’ve learned in chemistry are convenient lies. We’ll still lie in this class, but we’ll tell you when, and the lies won’t be convenient.”
To be fair we actually have a really good grasp on turbulence, just lack the computational power simulate it directly for non-trivial cases. It’s creating simpler models that allow us to simulate it’s effects at a cost we can manage that is the challenge.
Umm…forgot gravitational waves
Please credit the great Zach Weinersmith of https://www.smbc-comics.com – the author of Science: Abridged Beyond the Point of Usefulness
Also how bicycles stay upright.
> “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.” – D. Adams
“Aristotle said a bunch of stuff that was wrong.”
This could be the opening line to a book about [physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy…](https://forbiddencomma.wordpress.com/2015/10/21/aristotle-wrong-about-everything/comment-page-1/)
All models are wrong. Some are useful.
Don’t forget about gravity, the thing that nobody understands and we’re all okay with not understanding.
Glad we have figure out how slow stuff works.
When I took Physical Chemistry, the first thing the professor said to us was, “Up until now, most things you’ve learned in chemistry are convenient lies. We’ll still lie in this class, but we’ll tell you when, and the lies won’t be convenient.”
Physics professors really be the funniest ones.
Making him and everyone else on Earth look like a bitch, again.
I took a screenshot of this five years ago and still have it.
It ain’t wrong
[better yet](https://www.reddit.com/r/physicsmemes/comments/dx9y72/the_opening_paragraph_to_goodsteins_textbook/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
Ah Physics, one of those subject where the more you understand it, the more you realize you don’t understand it.
There’s no such thing as cold, only lack of heat.
Were fucking doomed
Nikolai Tesla enters the chat.
And simplifies everything for our dumbasses to understand.
To be fair we actually have a really good grasp on turbulence, just lack the computational power simulate it directly for non-trivial cases. It’s creating simpler models that allow us to simulate it’s effects at a cost we can manage that is the challenge.