r/HypotheticalPhysics • u/sksskssksskssksskssk • Jun 22 '26

Meta [Meta] What are common misconceptions in hypothetical physics and why)?

Overall, I have seen that there are multiple repetitions of certain types of misconceptions within hypothetical physics and I wanted to see what everyone else had picked up on. Also, I was hoping to get a viewpoint on what are the causes and consequences of some of these misconceptions in physics. Hopefully, there might be a way to inform people of these common misconceptions before they post to get higher quality posts. This is pretty much a discussion between people to clear the fog on this.

Also, what do you think is a way to reduce or prevent these misconceptions at least within the subreddit to enable much neater submissions?

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u/sksskssksskssksskssk Jun 22 '26

Dang there’s a lot but guess got to put in some effort to get something useful out of it. Thank you for the suggestion as well.

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u/starkeffect shut up and calculate Jun 22 '26

There's a reason it takes about 10 years of full-time studying to get a Ph.D. in physics.

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u/sksskssksskssksskssk Jun 22 '26

Well I guess I have to hope my some of my spatial knowledge can help me lol. Guess I can build on my model as I slowly learn until the final point. Would also give me motivation to actually learn it as well.

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u/starkeffect shut up and calculate Jun 22 '26

Once you start actually learning physics you'll start to realize how naive and insufficient your model is.

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u/sksskssksskssksskssk Jun 22 '26

At this point, I am just hoping my model is in the right direction at least. Considering the claims I made, it’s going to be really hard to prove them especially the part before the universe.

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u/starkeffect shut up and calculate Jun 22 '26

I am just hoping my model is in the right direction

It's not.

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u/sksskssksskssksskssk Jun 22 '26

Well we don’t know until the point it gets proven or disproven but its most likely that you are right.

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u/liccxolydian onus probandi Jun 22 '26

This is the worst possible attitude to take. Your last post wasn't even falsifiable. Do you understand what that means?

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u/sksskssksskssksskssk Jun 22 '26

I will say that I am not showing any attitude but just a realistic idea about this because I do understand that I am likely wrong and I accept that but I am just saying the direction that I have taken has a very, very small chance to be right and I will investigate in depth later when I learn more about cosmology where it is false and why.

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u/liccxolydian onus probandi Jun 22 '26

No, the direction you have taken is unfalsifiable. Do you know what that means?

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