• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    thought anitmatter was still mostly theoretical

    You thought wrong and that’s ok.

    I am skeptical they have a good handle on “antimatter”

    Which is more likely: you haven’t kept up to date on physics news, or the people who spend their lives doing physics don’t know what they’re doing? Be skeptical. But fix that by reading more. If someone is skeptical, but the answers exist and they stay skeptical, that’s just willful ignorance.

    every generation of experts claimed to have all of the answers

    No they haven’t. And no one is claiming that now.

    This isn’t skepticism. This is “I don’t understand, I don’t want to understand, but I want to feel smart so I’m going to say they’re not smart”.

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      On the contrary, the universe, the state of matter, the mechanisms of astro physics, are the subjects most deserving of being skeptical of experts claiming to know things they have no way of knowing. Now you may be referring to some humble scientists, but the “exerts” absolutely do claim to know everything.

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        You dont have a good understanding of what science is. No scientist claims to know what charge is, what causes it, nor what dark matter is or dark energy.

        Scientists say what they can say with reasonable certainty. If they state something, you can research why they state it, and find sound reasoning and experiment that supports it.

        If you dont, you can disprove it, and then now you’re a scientist.

        Just because you dont know a thing, doesn’t mean others cant know.

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        Come on Hector, just go back explaining everything with baby Jesus back in your room and stop making an ass of yourself in public.

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            12 hours ago

            And yet that’s how you started this thread. Any chance you’ll be self aware enough to take your own feedback?