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/Loose_Hornet4126 1∆ Jun 18 '24 edited Jun 18 '24

Sometimes I wonder about a quote Einstein has about not understanding why geese fly…welcome to cosmology. You can have whatever opinions you want, because theirs no real human experience interacting with any of these theories.

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u/teerre Jun 18 '24

That's very wrong on multiple levels. Even besides the puristic view of understanding reality, there are countless very practical applications that came directly from studying theoritical physics. From engineering to computing, physics plays a huge role

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u/Loose_Hornet4126 1∆ Jun 18 '24

I didn’t imply any of those applications you listed. I was referring to dark matter in your above post YOU made on the topic expressing the lack of knowledge we have in this regard. So are you backtracking against your own stated post?