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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Physics books are never outdated, you just discover better models that work in a wider range of conditions.

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[–] blockheadjt 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

There's a whole bit in The Incredibles about how math has changed since Bob was in school

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Good, I didn't wanna learn calculus anyway

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (8 children)

You could make the same argument for things like mathematics before the discovery about imaginary numbers.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (3 children)

The correct way to learn math is chronologically

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Wrong. Good look fooling around without algebra for years. New methods make old maths easy.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

"… Science is constantly proved all the time. You see, if we take something like any fiction, any holy book… and destroyed it, in a thousand years’ time, that wouldn’t come back just as it was. Whereas if we took every science book, and every fact, and destroyed them all, in a thousand years they’d all be back, because all the same tests would [produce] the same result.”

― Ricky Gervais

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