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<blockquote data-quote="thaumaturgy" data-source="post: 31333512" data-attributes="member: 169303"><p>I was actually just joking. I used to work for a chemist who decreed once that theoretical chemists had never done anything of value, ever. It was pretty funny.</p><p> </p><p>I think the underlying point was, however, more along the lines of "If the model works but we are fundamentally mistaken about some aspect of it but mistaken in such a way as it doesn't matter, we can still operate effectively." </p><p> </p><p>Kind of like QED with the renormalization that confused Feynman himself. Something is strange but its one of the most well-tested models in all of physics, iirc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="thaumaturgy, post: 31333512, member: 169303"] I was actually just joking. I used to work for a chemist who decreed once that theoretical chemists had never done anything of value, ever. It was pretty funny. I think the underlying point was, however, more along the lines of "If the model works but we are fundamentally mistaken about some aspect of it but mistaken in such a way as it doesn't matter, we can still operate effectively." Kind of like QED with the renormalization that confused Feynman himself. Something is strange but its one of the most well-tested models in all of physics, iirc. [/QUOTE]
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