Comment by olddustytrail
18 days ago
That attitude is totally bizarre to me. Why would you not want to know how things work?
I guess that's why some people don't get climate change: to them it's just some weird belief for scientists rather than something you can understand yourself.
> That attitude is totally bizarre to me.
When they say physics they aren't talking about it as you know it. What they are actually talking about is a corruption of the meaning.
To them, physics is just boring math that you solve problems that have no basis in reality. Its just formulas you have to memorize that don't let you do useful things, and formulas by themselves are useless knowledge, so they believe. This is what current textbooks teach, no intuition, no practical knowledge, contradictory information.
Its not about how things work because that isn't what is being taught. It may have been at one time, but now its all just useless formulas to these people. Such is the corruption and degradation of education today.