Invariably on exercise-related articles there will be a comment saying, basically, "Congratulations, science, for proving the obvious..."
The proper response is always the same: even what seems intuitively obvious needs continual verification through the scientific method, both to understand the underlying physical mechanisms that drive a phenomenon, and to detect situations where our intuition is wrong.
The proper response is always the same: even what seems intuitively obvious needs continual verification through the scientific method, both to understand the underlying physical mechanisms that drive a phenomenon, and to detect situations where our intuition is wrong.