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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago (6 children)

What do you mean no advances in the last 70 years?! In the last decade scientists detected gravity waves and imaged an actual real black hole. Also they've been steadily chipping at quantum gravity, give it a couple decades they'll get there.

unless we cancel all the funding

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Aren't the first two things just experimental proves of Einsteins relativity theory from over 100 years ago?

I don't know about quantum gravity though.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wouldn't say "just", experimental proof seems huge.

But if you want theories just go to PBS space time and open anything that isnt string theory or mond.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i say do watch the ones about string theory and mond so you can see why/how they're wrong

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

As a layman who's into physics it took me like a decade to understand what is "wrong" with them. No educational string theory video is prefaced with "Hey this is an old unprovable theory that is essentially dead in the water, but it has some cool math tricks and is fun to think about" as they should be.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

PBS Spacetime's approach was a pair of videos titled "Why String Theory is True" and "Why String Theory is False" and between them that pretty much put it to bed for me. cool math, cool worldbuilding, call me when they make a testable prediction. until then it goes on the scrap pile with aether and phlogiston.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

A theory proven is progress, don't you think?

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