The Humbling of Scientific Research

I stumbled upon an article in the NYTimes: Finding From Particle Research Could Rewrite Known Laws of Physic, which speaks to newly discovered subatomic particle behavior that seems to defy our textbook physics. It immediately struck me as a topic worth speaking to and for good reason:

We have lived through a decade of a dramatic drop in the price of storing vast quantities of data, amidst exponentially more powerful compute; capable of calculations incomprehensible a mere 10 years ago.

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The Fallacy of Reality

| Reality: the quality or state of being real |

Our lives and everything contained within them function on the basis of our conceptualized reality. We make our decisions based upon what is real: what is factual and what is tangible. Our friends, our families, our hopes, our dreams: all based in reality. The great paradox we face, of course, being that what is real is subject to a great degree of relativity.

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