• Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 个月前

    “Tested on mices” is the The biologist equivalent to the programmers “it works on my machine”

    If humanity ever perishes and the next dominant species ends up being mice, the discovery and translation of our research will usher in a utopian world for them.

  • Lotarion@lemmy.world
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    9 个月前

    Physics is mostly finding bugs in the existing physics model of the universe, then patching them

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        9 个月前

        I thought that was engineering

        “this amount of bridge material should collapse under its own weight, but we made it into arches/triangles and now it doesn’t 👍”

    • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      9 个月前

      Physicist spends a year observing moon to estimate it’s mass, only to rule out the theory that moon is made of Swiss cheese