Comment by seydor
2 years ago
> The proof is in the pudding, which is excellent.
not for long. steam engines existed long before statistical mechanics, but we dont get to modernity without the latter
2 years ago
> The proof is in the pudding, which is excellent.
not for long. steam engines existed long before statistical mechanics, but we dont get to modernity without the latter
Yet we have many medicines that we have empirically shown to work without a deep understanding of the mechanics behind them and we’re unlikely to understand many drugs, especially in psychiatry, any time soon.
Trial and error makes the universe go round.