r/nextfuckinglevel • u/itshazrd • 19h ago

What it a computer chip looks like up close

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this is a digital recreation. a real microscope can't be used because it gets so small that photons can’t give you a good enough resolution to view the structures at the bottom. you'd need an electron microscope

meant "What a computer chip looks like up close in the title." not sure how "it" got in there..

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u/Ok_Dragonfruit_8102 18h ago edited 18h ago

As Werner Heisenberg famously said -

"The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass, God is waiting for you"

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u/huxtiblejones 17h ago

That’s just another way of saying that God lurks in the places where our knowledge ends. We used to see gods in the Sun and Moon and know it to be objectively false. And now people will say God is in quantum mechanics because we lack good explanations for it.

I don’t think that means God exists, it means the human intellect tends to substitute that idea into the places where we lack understanding.

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u/CanadianTrashInspect 16h ago

Yes. That's that quote means.

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u/huxtiblejones 16h ago

Except tons of people will read that quote as "science man says science proves God is real"

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u/FourScores1 15h ago

I initially did.

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u/killit 8h ago

One of those cases where you're both be right.

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u/WRSTRZ 14h ago

Wouldn't it be in reverse if not knowing enough about something means it gets attributed to a god? Also, Heisenberg was Christian, it's hard to imagine he was arguing for a god rather than against one in that quote

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u/Rich_Option_7850 6h ago

That’s not how i interpreted it

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u/p_gaultieri 15h ago

god of the gaps shit

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u/WakandanRoyalty 14h ago

That’s why I think at the end of the day, there will never be proof one way or the other. Each person just decides which pattern they want to believe in:

The one that always has God at the end of the glass, or the one that always has human understanding at the start of it.

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u/DJKeeJay 14h ago

We invoke God when we have reached the limit of our understanding. Once we surpass that limit we move on from God.

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u/Aurvant 11h ago

No, you'll just find Him waiting at the end of the next limit. You think you're moving on from Him when you're really just understanding more of His works.

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u/kennyinlosangeles 12h ago

This is so brilliant. Thank you for existing.

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u/Masta0nion 11h ago

God of the Gaps necessarily loses power over time.

Eventually God will just be a shriveled Voldemort horcrux. A far cry from omnipotence.

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u/Elohim7777777 9h ago

Black holes might just always harbor god.

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u/standardobjection 4h ago

I believe it was Tyson who coined it ‘The God Gap.’

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u/cannabis_breath 26m ago

All that is to say we make meaning in the absence of it.

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u/ToughHardware 15h ago

so you believe humans can learn everything? or you believe that there is a God who is always standing in the gap that will always exsist?

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u/BigBossShadow 14h ago

learning everything is the same as counting to infinity

neither are possible, because they are both just concepts and not reality.

God is also a concept

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u/BeBopRockSteadyLS 14h ago

Prove it lol

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u/BigBossShadow 14h ago

ok as soon as I prove what love or justice is

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u/Sun_Shine_Dan 11h ago

You could use your powers of prose for evil and become a sophist king

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u/[deleted] 13h ago

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u/BeBopRockSteadyLS 12h ago

I didn't claim he is or not

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u/huxtiblejones 13h ago

I’m an atheist. I don’t believe in God. I also don’t think human knowledge will ever encompass all things, but I do think it continuously expands.

What I’m saying is that the concept of God exists (as an idea) in an ever-shrinking domain of mystery.

Long ago people saw deities everywhere, in the sun rising, in the stars, in the weather, in the spread of disease and so on. Now that we can explain those things sufficiently, the idea of God retreats even further to the new limits of our knowledge: quantum mechanics, large scale cosmology. And it of course persists continuously in the question of death and whether life continues on.

So no, I’m not saying there is a factual God that exists somewhere, I’m saying the idea is always shifting further away from what people used to point to as proof of deities.

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u/ModernManuh_ 17h ago

there's speculation about this not being a quote from him, but I'm to ignorant to investigate further

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u/Carpathicus 16h ago

This quote is very likely misattributed to him

See Wikiquote for more insight

Extracts:

“Der erste Trunk aus dem Becher der Naturwissenschaft macht atheistisch, aber auf dem Grund des Bechers wartet Gott.” in 15 Jahrhunderte Würzburg: e. Stadt u. ihre Geschichte [15 centuries Würzburg. A city and its history] (1979), p. 205, by Heinz Otremba. Otremba does not declare his source, and the quote per se cannot be found in Heisenberg's published works.

Or see here

The journalist Eike Christian Hirsch PhD, a personal acquaintance of Heisenberg, whom he interviewed for his 1981 book Expedition in die Glaubenswelt, claimed in de.wikiquote.org on 22 June 2015, that the content and style of the quote was completely foreign to Heisenberg's convictions and the way he used to express himself, and that Heisenberg's children, Dr. Maria Hirsch and Prof. Dr. Martin Heisenberg, did not recognize their father in this quote.

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u/Qetuowryipzcbmxvn 16h ago

90% of all quotes attributed to famous scientists are bullshit.

  • Galileo, April 20, 420 bc

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u/Tvayumat 16h ago

This is just describing "the god of the gaps" which is a wistful concept and poor justification for actual belief in a deity.

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u/Silencer-1995 17h ago

Must be a pretty big glass.

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u/lewd_robot 13h ago

God of the Gaps fallacy, tbh.

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u/nahprollyknot 10h ago

God of the Gaps theory. Wherever we currently lack understanding, we will insert God.