• Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 months ago

    “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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    6 months ago

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

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        6 months ago

        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 👍”

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      6 months ago

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