Science sucks. It really does. It used to be that you could rely on science to explain why things were happening in precisely the way that you observed they were happening.
That’s just right. If that isn’t why science was invented, then I miss my guess. If one could propose an esoteric reason why A led to B, rather than just saying “A leads to B,” then one was home free and probably got a raise and tenure.
Things just aren’t the same, anymore.
When this quantum BS first hit the commercial arena a few decades ago, it was pretty obvious that it was crap. Stuff just didn’t work that way. It’s terribly disconcerting for someone to walk up and hand you a tunnel diode when you know dam’ well it won’t work — then it does. It’s like seeing incontrovertible evidence that the earth predates more than a week before Adam. Pure fakery and manipulation. What fools we be.
I have to feel the same way about all these dam’ string theories (which, admittedly have gone in and out of favor more rapidly than a … well, nemmine). Things just don’t work that way. FTL is assured, according to all my fave SF writers. I do have imagination. I can accept one more dimension beyond those I can see. That’s it. Don’t mess with me.
I have put a thangy in my freezer. It’ll trap the graviton, then you’ll all be sorry you piped up and blathered. I have a Theory of Everything and it works for everything but women. The graviton was a cinch, relatively speaking.
August 19th, 2009 at 11:38 am
No amount of science can every truely explain woman.
August 19th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
OK, Provident. You made me laugh, dammit. I thought the strange quarks were bad.