It's one thing to have a great experiment and declare that it disproves the laws of physics. It's another thing entirely to say it with a straight face.
We see this all the time in astronomy, physics's younger cousin. Sometimes, you point your telescope at a distant spot in the sky and you see something you've never seen before. But upon closer inspection, you realize that some bird has crapped on your telescope.
That's what experiments like this are: crap on your telescope. But unlike the birds' crap, which was put there inadvertantly, these experiments are often conducted with premeditation and deliberation. They seek to undermine our worldviews and make us mistrust our histories and traditions.
It's far better not to question fundamental laws of physics. With astronomy, you can get away with it, because at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter whether the sun goes around the earth or whether the earth goes around the sun. But with physics, your every move could have dire consequences not just for our little corner of the universe but for all phenomena everywhere.
I know I certainly wouldn't want to be responsible for having our universe disappear in a puff of logic.
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It's one thing to have a great experiment and declare that it disproves the laws of physics. It's another thing entirely to say it with a straight face.
We see this all the time in astronomy, physics's younger cousin. Sometimes, you point your telescope at a distant spot in the sky and you see something you've never seen before. But upon closer inspection, you realize that some bird has crapped on your telescope.
That's what experiments like this are: crap on your telescope. But unlike the birds' crap, which was put there inadvertantly, these experiments are often conducted with premeditation and deliberation. They seek to undermine our worldviews and make us mistrust our histories and traditions.
It's far better not to question fundamental laws of physics. With astronomy, you can get away with it, because at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter whether the sun goes around the earth or whether the earth goes around the sun. But with physics, your every move could have dire consequences not just for our little corner of the universe but for all phenomena everywhere.
I know I certainly wouldn't want to be responsible for having our universe disappear in a puff of logic.