This meme was circulated about 20 years ago by my reckoning.

It was clever back then, it’s far less entertaining now in an age when people are discarding science and factual knowledge wholesale.

We have very, very good models of each of those “things” listed. We have such good models for it, that even since this meme first made rounds, we have created new kinds of telescopes that can see gravity, we have created computers that can calculate using individual particles in superposition, we have built tools to view the edge of space and time and have imaged the event-horizons around black holes and we have created conditions close to beginning of the universe in labs and discovered new particles that validate decades or centuries of theorizing.

These models only break down in extreme environments or when they intersect in certain conditions. But by “break down” we don’t mean “scientists throw their hands in the air and become flat-earthers” we mean “we are missing some key data” to make different fields of science work together.

I prefer not to reference deceased scientists & philosophers because it makes me appear old. I prefer to only acknowledge the wisdom of contemporaries such as Jordan Peterson & Neil DeGrass Tyson so people don’t think I’m elderly.

/s

(This is how I feel when kids say they’re embarrassed about liking 80s music)

Turbulence can go to hell and take Reynolds numbers with them

All models are wrong. Some are useful.

— George Box

Not even clear why hot water freeze faster than cold one.