I think this is what happens when people forget they are standing on the shoulders of Giants.
A few years of basic physics courses will allow this kind of error because you've forgotten you're standing on the shoulders of those giants. Additionally it doesn't give you the prerequisite knowledge to re-implement the base principles required to become the giant yourself.
This is a very similar feeling in the flat Earth communities. They dispute or believe that they have found fundamental flaws in knowledge that they are incapable of recreating or unwilling to devote the necessary time and study to recreate from scratch.
It is good to question things it is good to reaffirm and relearn first principles. The issue is when we fail to understand how those discoveries were made the time and energy and genius that went in to discovering them, we fall into the trap of children thinking they know better than the parents. Curiosity and new perspectives can be a good thing but extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. What I saw in this post was simply the writings of someone who needs to spend more time in study.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 15.6 ms ] threadA few years of basic physics courses will allow this kind of error because you've forgotten you're standing on the shoulders of those giants. Additionally it doesn't give you the prerequisite knowledge to re-implement the base principles required to become the giant yourself.
This is a very similar feeling in the flat Earth communities. They dispute or believe that they have found fundamental flaws in knowledge that they are incapable of recreating or unwilling to devote the necessary time and study to recreate from scratch.
It is good to question things it is good to reaffirm and relearn first principles. The issue is when we fail to understand how those discoveries were made the time and energy and genius that went in to discovering them, we fall into the trap of children thinking they know better than the parents. Curiosity and new perspectives can be a good thing but extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. What I saw in this post was simply the writings of someone who needs to spend more time in study.