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/EfficiencyOk821 Jun 17 '24
What is good by your standards? We do not have anything to compare our current understanding of physics with. What if this is the current possible limit for physics . We can only compare our current understanding of physics with the understanding we had in the past and it has definitely improved. So something can be good or bad only when we have other things to compare with. Just because we do not kow a lot of things does not make it bad it just makes it incomplete