Wednesday, April 9th, 2014.
Reduced (or expanded) to formulas
The law of gravitational force, the law of action-reaction, the law of inertia, E=MC^2. All these formulas, among many more, are the laws of physics that summarize life around us. The laws of physics can be written out as words, but are more often transcribed into a logical and scientific combination of letters, numbers and symbols into a formula.
Isn't it weird to think of the world summarized into an equation? At the end of the day, when physics students or physicists, or any individual really, work with these formulas and these theories, it is as if they are holding the fate of the world in their hands. At least in theory. But, most of all, isn't it weird to find cases of null solutions, or when a whole sequence and process of reasoning, is proved completely wrong or unsound? If the formula is a model representing life, does it mean that life was wrong as well in a sense, if the model was inaccurate?
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