Why Study Physics? - LessWrong
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Physics seems to have a bunch of useful epistemic techniques which haven’t been made very legible yet. …
x Why Study Physics? — LessWrong Physics World Modeling Frontpage 72 Why Study Physics? by johnswentworth 27th Nov 2021 4 min read 30 72 Physics seems to have a bunch of useful epistemic techniques which haven’t been made very legible yet. The two big legible epistemic techniques in technical fields are Mathematical Proofs, and The Scientific Method. Either derive logically X from some widely-accepted axioms, or hypothesize X and then do a bunch of experiments which we’d expect to come out some other way if X were false. It seems pretty obvious that science requires a bunch of pieces besides t
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