I like how "quantum physics" is starting to become a catch-all explanation for anything we don't understand, regardless of whether or not it explains anything. This is probably mostly due to the fact that anyone who understands quantum physics can begin to answer any sort of science question with "Well, it's because of quantum physics...", and everyone will just believe them, because hey, do YOU understand quantum physics? Of course you don't, you know why? Because quantum physics doesn't make any sense. It is so completely disconnected from any sort of day-to-day, rational thought that trying to explain any part of it will result in at least one bystander suffering from spontaneous combustion. Of the face. And nobody wants that, so we just accept that it solves every problem.
I hope that someday, it'll be like how "The gods did it" used to be a suitable explanation for anything. Just you wait, in a few years, every single question you ever had about the universe will somehow be explained through quantum physics.* Gravity? Quantum physics. UFOs? Quantum physics. Socks going missing in the laundry? Quantum goddamn physics. I am willing to mindlessly believe any field of science that says that objects can be in two places at once, and that things can behave differently depending on whether or not you're looking at them. Theoretical physicists are clearly dark sorcerers, and thus deserve our admiration and fear.
That sound you heard was someone's head catching fire.
*Or possibly dark matter.
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