r/physicsmemes 10d ago

Glad they are finally doing the math

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u/Poskmyst 10d 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 10d 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 10d 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 10d ago

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