/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.7346298]

>tfw physics student
>tfw it's abundantly clear that in short order people will look back and see our physics as we now regard Aristotle's; ignorant as fuck

[Anonymous No.7346308]

Maybe future civilizations will consider things like QM, basic, but not ignorant. Aristotle just believed things using shitty "logic" and never did any experimentation. That isn't acceptable in the science community today, and as a physics student you should know that.

[Anonymous No.7346327]

>>7346308
He used the intellectual tools of his day to great effect nobody gave a shit about experiment then so it would be silly to expect him to.
He worked with the foundations he had and in this context his achievements were still great. As a thinking individual of any employ you should know not to judge some goatfucker from 2300 years ago by modern standards of rigour.

[Anonymous No.7346330]

>>7346298
They might just treat our modern physics the way we treat Newtonian Mechanics. As just a certain limit of a more accurate theory.

[Anonymous No.7346332]

>>7346308
>experiment
>vali

[Anonymous No.7346346]

>>7346298
If you're a physics student you should know that what you're talking is complete bullshit.

[Anonymous No.7346360]

>>7346298
You think you could do better than Aristotle? No internet, no textbooks making math up from scratch? He had incredibly insight for the tools he had to work with, who knows if anyone alive today could've accomplished what he did

[Anonymous No.7346439]

>>7346360
I (OP here) was >>7346327 defending as you do his achievements.

He was still ignorant, but as you said it was not for lack of trying or intelligence, but merely that he lived without access to as much as we have.

Mostly a lament.

[Anonymous No.7346532]

>>tfw it's abundantly clear that in short order AIs will look back and see our physics as we now regard Aristotle's; ignorant as fuck

fixed that for you OP