Incidentally, this was a theory of what could be underlying the perceived fournelements: warm and dry is Fire, cold and wet is Water, hot and wet is Air, cold and dry is Earth. Also wrong, bit it is rather surprising when you dig into Medieval texts how much could be done with this banana-pants wrong model of the universe!
So I did, typo. That's why when you apply heat to water, it "turns into air" (what we know is H2O in gaseous form).
Aww. The ancient Greeks were convinced the youth of their time would ruin the world. Humankind stumbles along somehow.
I dunno, compared to the Classical/Medieval model, modern science is far more aware that there is something off about the model, so a new, better paradigm is achievable in theory.
The standard model of physics: it is in Flux, with major unanswered questions. I'm not going to presume to tell you what they are, bit my understanding is that reconciling quantum physics with general relativity is...fraught? Similar to how flaws in older paradigms eventually led to new leaps as people banged their heads against proud nails, like why gold did not come from lead as theoretical physics predicted, no matter how hard they tried.
