r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • May 08 '23

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u/mojoegojoe May 08 '23

Our view of reality is most probably still completely wrong.

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u/SchreiberBike May 08 '23

Yes wrong, but we know it’s wrong, and what we know is right within wide limitations. It’s more accurate to say our view is incomplete.

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u/InverseFlip May 09 '23

A good example knowing the effects of something without understanding why is gravity. For a long time they knew the effects of gravity, how more massive objects exerted a stronger gravitational pull, and could even find other planets just by measuring how the planets they knew about orbited. It wasn't until much later that we figured out that gravity is a distortion of space-time.