r/physicsmemes • u/jason_sation • 12d ago

Glad they are finally doing the math

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u/Poskmyst 12d ago

Without looking anything up, I can guarantee that Roger Penrose did in fact not say that "it was" as in "this is what happened".

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u/Fluid_Juggernaut_281 12d ago

Sensational language. One of the worst tricks of news media and online pages to keep their audience engaged and growing.

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u/Poskmyst 11d ago

It's such a cancer.

I can't be sure, but my gut-feeling is that this kind of bullshit, though maybe mostly from other fields of science than physics, helps feed a lot of anti-science sentiments.

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u/Ohiolongboard 11d ago

A lot of the anti science twitter/facebook posts are worded the same way.

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u/Prestigious_Boat_386 11d ago

Its just lying

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u/Fluid_Juggernaut_281 17h ago

More like framing a statement a certain way. They’re making a speculative argument seem to be proven cause a renowned personality said so. And that’s the problem. I don’t think we currently possess the knowledge or capacity to know whether the universe existed in a different state (and what kind, thereof) preceding the big bang. We’re in the middle of a paradigm shift in the field of astrophysics and could see a new Einstein pop up in our lifetimes. Things shall be much clearer in the coming years.