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> is that the scientists are not standing back and looking at all the assumptions they use Plenty of physicists do exactly this. I have seen a number of physic
by justinpombrio 8y ago
> is that the scientists are not standing back and looking at all the assumptions they use
Plenty of physicists do exactly this. I have seen a number of physics papers that center around re-thinking or re-deriving basic assumptions. What gave you the impression otherwise?
By the way, if you're inferring anything at all about the field via popular science articles, please don't. They are almost always extremely misleading.
- oldandtired 8y agoSome physicists will do this (in part). I, also, have seen various papers that look at the basic assumptions. What I am saying is that on the whole, physicists don't do this. The impression comes from seeing the lack of diversity of funding, the standard way of discouraging investigation into looking at assumptions, the ad hominem attacks by various segments and actually communicating with various scientists in various fields about their subject matter. Popular science articles, well, there's another problem. I suppose what I am saying here is that scientists of all stripes (including physicists) are human and have all the same human fallibilities of politics, anger management, distrust, hatred, cowardice, hero worship, arrogance, hypocrisy and back biting, to name but a few, that occurs in all human environments.