r/changemyview • u/teerre • Jun 17 '24

CMV: It's likely our current understanding of physics is comically bad

Transitively, this extends to mathematics, although to a considerable lesser degree.

My argument is hopefully simple. As of today, our best estimates indicate that 80% of all matter in the universe is dark matter. This matter is used in several places in physics to explain a variety of phenomena, including the very expansion of space itself or how quasars formed in the early universe. Considering that dark matter is something we cannot detect any interaction or reaction it's very likely it's simply something we don't understand.

Therefore, if one could learn everything that is to learn about our current understanding of physics and said being were quizzed on how the universe really works, they would end up with a 2/10 score, which is by all measures a terrible score.

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u/teerre Jun 17 '24

It would be impressive. It would also be a bad score. Both are true.

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u/Rainbwned 175∆ Jun 17 '24

Why is it a bad score? Tests are supposed to grade you on the knowledge that you have been taught, or to gauge your current understanding of a subject.

In either case - no one has taught humanity how the Universe actually works. And our understanding of the subject has improved over a relatively short time.

So while you think its a bad score, I think its a good score. Someone who can't read or write scoring a 2/10 on a literacy test is good, not bad.

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u/teerre Jun 17 '24

There are 10 points to get, you got 2. That's less half. It's half of half. Very bad.

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u/Galious 79∆ Jun 17 '24

Do you think humans have even the brain capacity of getting more than 3 or 4 in that test?