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So as per usual with headlines in the form of a question, the answer from the article appears to be no. It might be more accurate to title it "Physicist and Phi
by jaggederest 10y ago
So as per usual with headlines in the form of a question, the answer from the article appears to be no. It might be more accurate to title it "Physicist and Philosopher question the empirical underpinnings of physics". There's not really anything here to disprove anything from the current standard models.
- johncolanduoni 10y agoAlso most of the rest of physics has been chugging along pretty well. People that are working on this particular problem from any angle (string theory or any other attempts at unification) are a minority in the physics community. If the title was theoretical high energy physics was in a crisis, I'd be more inclined to agree.
- iaw 10y agoThe word "empirical" implies that there's some evidence to back up the claims in the work on string theory and the multiverse. A more apt summary may be "Physicist and Philosopher point out lack of empirical underpinnings for esoteric branches of physics"
- alexandercrohde 10y agoAgreed. I'm really unclear on what is is supposed to be new about this post. As far as I know, it's considered that multiverse is highly-theoretical (potentially non-falsifiable). String theory, a dozen dimensions, etc are still speculative and treated as unproven. Nobody said any of that was proven.