The Great Theoretical Leap Of Faith

The Great Theoretical Leap Of Faith
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Theoretical physicists be like "trust me bro, I can derive everything with math." Meanwhile, experimentalists are in the lab actually checking if reality agrees.

This is basically asking if we can just sit in our comfy chairs with a pencil and derive quantum mechanics, relativity, and the Standard Model straight from F=ma. That face is the perfect "are you serious right now?" expression every experimental physicist makes when a theorist claims they don't need lab data.

Spoiler alert: No amount of mathematical gymnastics gets you from classical mechanics to "spooky action at a distance" without someone actually observing it first. Nature loves to throw curveballs that no amount of elegant equations can predict!

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