Worked as a physicist for 30 years, nobody talks like that. Everyone else in the room is to smart, and will slap you down for using absolutes.
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>nobody
You should be slapped as well then.
Well it’s about time someone picked up on that one. It was low hanging fruit.
For some reason your comment makes me think of this
would it be more grammatically correct if he said "with enough derogation"?
Yes, but I think that playing with the grammar is part of the joke, as if derogatory is quantifiable.
I'm about to slap you both. For the lulz.
Like The Three Stooges.
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That explains why the Sith were rarely seen in the sciences.
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I can’t quite get over the fact that the premise is false
no science teacher would ever say that.
Light travels in a straight line, plenty of crystals, linear erosion, many trees evolved to be as straight as possible...
and to be esoteric, every object path, even when gravity affects them (they travel in a perfectly straight line, but it is spacetime that is curved).
no science teacher would ever say that.
Careful with those absolute statements there buddy. I was told the same by a teacher, who challenged the class to come up with natural examples of either straight lines or perfect circles. He talked about how such things cannot exist because at high enough resolution/magnification there will always be interruptions.
Your own example of light traveling in straight lines doesn't account for the fact that photons are waves and absolutely do not travel in straight lines.
they do tavel in a perfectly straight line though.
space time is curved, not the light path.
What about the fact that light bends around corners? Notably the interference pattern when shining light through a slit?
Stop being mean to light by making it choose what slits to go through.
it has choice anxiety.
Ah, sorry for the confusion, I was referring to the single-slit experiment, I wasn't giving light a choice.
that's worse :(
let light be free
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It travels in a straight line, just not in every dimension. Look at a waveform from above, it's a straight line.
Uh...
Oh sure, bring evidence into it 🙄 lol. Um, how about sound waves?
Sound waves are compressive waves, they radiate spherically (in principle, turbulence in the medium is going to make them slightly irregular)
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I work in public education. That's a pretty innocuous statement compared to some of the shit I've heard. Some teachers get so complacent in their lessons that they forget to apply it in their critical-thinking. Then, they have some crazy logical lapse, say something ridiculous out loud, and then some other kid from that class repeats that same shit to their own students when they grow up. These are mistakes that could easily be rectified with an apology or deliberate correction, but teachers are pushed so hard to prioritize being an authority figure that they sometimes forget to just be a teacher.
I'm going to pull a no true Scotsman, no good teacher would say that.
yhea, there are teachers that lose it a bit.
You'll hear no arguments from me.
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Memes like this are so dumb. Laugh tracks for the internet.
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And this is why absolute statements are generally bad arguments. It only takes one example to disprove them.
Only Siths deal in absolutes
Mostly Siths deal in absolutes.
No scientists ever said that.
I didn't say they did. I was commenting on the meme and speaking generally.
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Wildcats are nature, they have multiple very sharp corners.
No need to go that far, I have one set of sharp corners sitting right on my lap. Also help, I'm trapped. :(
Your lap has been chosen! You cannot move until you are allowed to move.
those lines are never straight...
just because someone calls themself a scientist doesnt mean they are, as evidenced by that post
what about evil wizards who call themselves scientists? legit, or no?
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well done OP, you really stuck it to those stupid scientists
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Most scientists won't say that there are no straight lines in nature, it's so obviously and provably wrong. I think it's more of a thing philosophically said when talking about how modern life is so different and unnatural compared to the lives of ancient people or animals.
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Does it still have straight lines if you look really closely?
Well, no. If you look closely enough, no lines exist.
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