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Originally Posted by Lightspeed
The people we like the most just seem to have the best explanations.
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The thing about science is that it can show you that you only liked the explanation because of the person saying it. An explanation is good only when it is just as good when said by someone else. Even someone you can't stand.
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Originally Posted by Lightspeed
The people we like the most just seem to have the best explanations.
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Yeah, which is why when a nobody working in an Austrian post office said he thought he had a better explanation of motion and gravity than the immortal Isaac Newton, he got torched and we don't care about his dumb ideas and nobody remembers his name.
Then there was that time when a priest from some hick town in Belgium said he thought he had a better explanation for the weird positions of galaxies than the immortal Albert Einstein, and he got torched and everyone acknowledges that the universe isn't expanding.
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Originally Posted by Lightspeed
The people we like the most just seem to have the best explanations.
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It's hard to even imagine the level of bravery it would require to say "actually, I think the 100% true magic book is wrong" just about anywhere, anytime in the past 2000 years. But you know what? Some people did it.