So my understanding from people who have been in physics either making YouTube videos or just talking to me:
The headlines are usually over-sensationalized. String theory especially, to this day, hasn't made an experimental prediction irrc. In fact string theory specifically I don't think CAN be tested because of how it's laid out? It's got math to it but not a whole lot you can check. Doesn't make it bad I guess but it just hasn't produced results (yet... maybe).
But theoretical physics works very well and you can have it because physics is just math. So much fucking math. But just math none-the-less.
What makes theoretical physics valuable, then, is that it guides experimental physics.
Good example: Einstein did a lot of math and figured out the universe /should/ bend with gravity. And you could check that by seeing if light bends with gravity. Then they figured out "okay if we look at Venus next to the sun, it should look like it's in the wrong place according to the math we have now, but it should look like the right place according to the math Einstein did" and BAM it did. The sun bent the light coming from Venus.
If Einstein didn't do the theoretical work, not very likely anyone would've thought to potentially damage a telescope by looking at Venus next to the sun when they could just look at it any other time... Or something like that. Mightve been Mercury or a comet or something.
So anyways: if the theoretical physics can explain all existing observations and it can predict new observations, then all that math can be used for new theoretical work to tell scientists to look at things they usually wouldn't bother with because some NERD did a lot more math and saw something kinda funny.
There are definitely theoretical parts of other studies too like that, but physics gets its own very very very definite Theoretical section because it's literally just a bunch of math problems to begin with. You still need to confirm that your math is right through observation, but it's still math ultimately.
Sudden redeployments out of the original scope of the operation you say? I'm starting to think this limited military operation isn't going so well or is so limited.
Wait yeah huh never thought of that. MW2 was the last COD I wanted to play and I even remember as a kid that reveal hitting like "OH I see, you had all that power and really sent all those people die because you're fucking insane. You wanted to watch the world burn and hide behind all that messaging about justice and defense for yourself and you USED me. Damn."
I like to think that made me critical of some things lmao.
I definitely felt a certain way replaying the campaigns for MW1-2 knowing it was, essentially, all for nothing and all those people were dying for the ambitions of a select few.
Not sure about any of that other stuff at all either.
Capital and also, PURELY IMO, I've gotten an increasing sense over the last few years that there's a lot of overlap between the two governments just in terms of people and personal ties.
Like it almost feels more correct to start from the assumption the US/isreal are, functionally, the same organization and and then to delineate differences from there. Not really a who-controls-who thing because that starts from the position there's a lot of separation.
I don't think that'd really reach a liberal either because their mindset of national identity might as well be as tangible as the earth and sun to a lot of them but that's just the thought I had thinking about the thread/topic.
Also hard to parse because you get into conspiracy territory. Just because two powerful people know each other doesn't mean there's a power dynamic, they could be buddies, they could just like helping each other. Networking and converging interests can make two people with huge mansions pull some moves together.
None of this is at you specifically btw. Your comment just got my hamsters running. Reminded me there's a certain kind of casual banality to all of this stuff because of how power, capital and money scales etc.
Man if I could just get literally .0003% of that money I could not have any panic attacks trying to pay my bills for a very long time so cool to watch it go up into flames to help these deranged demons terrorize the world and kill children : )
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