Why modern physics is forcing us to rethink existence
NASA astronomer Michelle Thaller explains why uncertainty is central to discovery.
Modern physics keeps pushing us beyond intuitive ideas of space, time, and matter. At cosmic scales and quantum scales, many assumptions from everyday experience stop working.
Scientists like Michelle Thaller argue that this is not a crisis for science but a sign that our models are improving. Better instruments reveal behaviors we could not observe before.
For readers and creators, this mindset is useful beyond physics: uncertainty can be the start of better questions, better experiments, and better decisions.
A guest post by
Joseph Mbuzi
Psychology educator with over 3M followers, podcast host, and author.
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Great article. Thank you. This is a well-structured insight into the topic and very helpful.
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