For some reason Nature News was inspired to tweet about my old blog post on Seriously, The Laws of Physics Underlying Everyday Life Are Completely Understood. Which I mentioned on Facebook, which led to an interesting comment, which I then mentioned on Google+... but now it's substantive enough that I feel like I am neglecting our loyal blog readers! So here is a copy of my G+ comment, and a lament that I suck at proper use of the internet.
Not sure what brought this back to life. Like the Lord of the Rings, this is part of a trilogy; don't miss the first installment, or the exciting conclusion. As Michael Salem points out on an alternative social-media site (rhymes with "lacebook"), some of the resistance to this really quite unobjectionable claim comes from a lack of familiarity with the idea of a "range of validity" for a theory. We ...