“If we want to know how objects fall, though, we shouldn’t ask people with the socially-awarded status of authority, we should look at falling things—like bricks.”
But now we don’t do much of that, we read physics books and work out the homework. There isn’t time to repeat all the experiments. When it comes to supercolliders etc it would take years to work out the math and deal with the confounding variables and such.
“If we want to know how objects fall, though, we shouldn’t ask people with the socially-awarded status of authority, we should look at falling things—like bricks.”
But now we don’t do much of that, we read physics books and work out the homework. There isn’t time to repeat all the experiments. When it comes to supercolliders etc it would take years to work out the math and deal with the confounding variables and such.