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Quote by: Lullaby Chainer  I believe E equals mc squared. Do I understand why? Nope. However, I have faith that physicists understand it fully.
Theists believe their god exists. Do they understand it? Nope. However, religious leaders don't understand it either, apparently.
Yet, theists try to get us to believe that this thing they don't even understand is the answer to everything.
Is this a pro or con of religion?
Is it reason to doubt religion?
Is it reason to trust religion? |
Do physicists understand E=MC squared fully?
Only after making certain assumptions that are "common sense". But these have not been proved, the fact that they are common sense ot the
human mind doesn't make them right. The human mind is designed to allow the survival of humans at a caveman stage of development, not to be able to understand the theoretical but in practice irrelevant nature of the universe.
Newton's theory of gravity, contrary to what you might think, is not PROVED. In most practical situations, it serves, but Newton made certain unproven and unprovable assumptions to "prove" his own theory, for example that maths, derived from the human mind, can accurately be used to determine the universes nature.
200 years or so down the line, we know that Newtons theory and those derived from it were critical in getting ourselves to our level of development today. But that doesn't mean that it is CORRECT- and the current crisis in understanding and taking further the understanding of the universe is sometimes blamed on flaws in the theory of gravity.
So, E=MC squared is understood by physicists so long as they make ASSUMPTIONS beforehand. Much like religion can be understood by those who preach it, so long as they make certain ASSUMPTIONS beforehand, primarily that their holy texts and prophets are correct. Another flaw in your argument actually, as physicists= "Gods" prophets in this context. In this context, the religious leaders, however= teachers who teach students E=MC squared, but don't fully understand it. Thus you must compare the physicists to the prophets, not the religious leaders.
FYI, I am agnostic. I have faith in scientific theories
practical application. However, in my opinion, the
theoretical nature of the universe is fundementally unknowable by the human mind(whether their be a God/s or not), as
the human mind is not designed/evolved to understand it.