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Don't the "best" models make surprising predictions that we go out of our way to design experiments to collect data for - and find that they are, in fact, accu
by logicallee 10y ago
Don't the "best" models make surprising predictions that we go out of our way to design experiments to collect data for - and find that they are, in fact, accurate?
Has string theory made a single prediction anyone went out of their way to test, finding it accurate?
I don't have a problem with shoveling in a bunch of dimensions. If it's shovelled in carefully so as not to predict anything that can be tested, I can get that entertainment from watching flat Earth videos though.
- lmm 10y ago> Don't the "best" models make surprising predictions that we go out of our way to design experiments to collect data for - and find that they are, in fact, accurate? Models like e.g. the heliocentric solar system, or even relativity, weren't developed that way - they were developed by noticing flaws or incompatibilities in existing models, and proposing a better explanation for them. (The much-touted "experimental verification" of relativity in an eclipse was a nonsense - the errors were as large as the measurements - but it didn't matter; the theory was elegant enough to be obviously correct). String theory is mostly still at the fiddling-with-the-epicycles-and-thought-experiments stage. But at least it has a model that contains a) standard QM and b) a graviton. None of the competition has even got that far (and there's little reason to think they ever will in most cases).
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