Do We Know Anything At This Point?

Do We Know Anything At This Point?
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The bell curve of understanding gravity perfectly captures the existential crisis of theoretical physics. At the low end, people admit they don't know what gravity is. At the high end, PhDs have mental breakdowns because after decades of research, they still don't know what gravity is—just with fancier terminology about "spacetime curvature" and "quantum fruit loops."

This is physics in its natural habitat: spending 11 years in school to make $57K explaining a fundamental force we fundamentally don't understand. The most honest physicists are either blissfully ignorant or suicidally enlightened. Everyone in the middle just pretends to know things.

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