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Trials and Errors: Why Science Is Failing Us
Lanxon writes "An in-depth feature in Wired explores the reason science may be failing us. Quoting: 'For too long, we've pretended that the old problem of causality can be cured by our shiny new knowledge. If only we devote more resources to research or dissect the system at a more fundamental level or search for ever more subtle correlations, we can discover how it all works. But a cause is not a fact, and it never will be; the things we can see will always be bracketed by what we cannot. And this is why, even when we know everything about everything, we'll still be telling stories about why it happened. It's mystery all the way down.'"
In other words "hey philosophy majors, no one cares!"
Bubble Wrap is very fascinating.
You say that, and yet I believe we were promised flying cars. I WANT MY FLYING CAR GODDAMMIT! Clear failure of science there.
That article could have been a whole lot shorter come to think of it.
The universe would be boring. Next question?
We can make other things fly, just not cars. What we have here is clearly a failure of engineering.
and base 10 has it's own flaws: one of which is Pi. Pi, in base 10, cannot ever be calculated out.
I've solved that by switching to base Pi!
Of course, I'm still working out how to write 10...
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
Then we will be one step closer to psychohistory!!