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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Well that's just a theory, albeit good, and there's a good chunk of modern science that refuses to marry it, so let's not be too sure about it, shall we?

Edit: Wikipedia summarises it nicely:

Although general relativity is highly regarded for its elegance and accuracy it is not without limitations: the gravitational singularities inside of black holes, the ad hoc postulation of dark matter, as well as dark energy and its relation to the cosmological constant are among the current unsolved mysteries regarding gravity; all of which signal the collapse of the general theory of relativity at different scales and highlight the need for a gravitational theory that goes into the quantum realm.

Edit: Also highly recommend this read: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/quantum-gravity/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I really hate that people just accept these advanced theories as objective truth. It's just the best theory we have right now, that doesn't mean that's how it actually works. It's good enough that we can almost always just use the theory and get good results, but then people get all pissy when you point out that it's still just a theory and is not without its flaws.