27 May

The ‘force’ of gravity disappeared from science decades ago. Explained nicely with a bowling ball, and some maggots, thanks @[777634111:2048:Andrew]. It’s one of those examples that I think shows we don’t get ever closer to ‘the truth’, like some single objective endpoint, with each new theory. There’s almost no resemblance between this and Newton’s ideas about force. Every theory carries a framework of assumptions, without which the ‘facts’ can’t exist or make sense. But those assumptions aren’t facts. The real battleground of ideas is the assumptions, not the facts.