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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Physics is just us categorizing the relationships between different observed phenomena. "Explanations" are fun, and many can be true at certain scales, but getting deeper into any specific phenomenon is just a rabbit hole that leads to more and more "we don't know why it does that, it just does and it works in our models."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Exactly my point!

You can't get caught up in the why, because at our current understanding, there is no why.

There only is.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Magnetism was my introduction to giving up the "need to know why".

Why does one pole attract another? It just does.

It just does.

Move on.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Fucking magnets.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

oh man if I ever met a magnet in a dark alley

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