I get what the cartoon is criticising. Yet, a patent clerk invented one of the most important theories of modern physics, which is at odds with the picture of science the cartoon paints.
Math textbooks almost never explain the problems that led to the theory. They just start with ‘definition, axiom, theorem,’ resulting in a sophisticated but completely unmotivated theory. Finding the motivation is left as an exercise for the reader.
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Putin is the one controlling the lever and needlessly murdering innocent people.
Zelenskyy is urged to negotiate with lever-wielding Putin, while both are portrayed as equally culpable.
It's absurd.
C.S. Lewis’ excellent reply to St Paul’s well-know quote:
When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
The question has been solved ever since Everett published his thesis in 1956:
Collapse never happens. ‘We’ only see one possible outcome because other versions of us see the other possible outcomes.
That Everett’s solution is still controversial is the only real mystery.
To my mind, the biggest unsettled question in Quantum Mechanics is: How does the wavy probabilistic haze central to the mathematical formulation of the theory transform into the single definite reality of experience?
The 'evolution is just a theory' argument assumes that science is a search for certainty and that theories are supposed to be turned into ‘justified true beliefs.’
But science is a search for good explanations, and explanations are always open to improvement.
