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It's exactly how "science is supposed to work" when the experiments don't confirm the expectations of some theoretical physicists: "killing off theories is sim
by acqq 8y ago
It's exactly how "science is supposed to work" when the experiments don't confirm the expectations of some theoretical physicists:
"killing off theories is simply how science is supposed to work" "“This is what we do all the time, put forward a working hypothesis and test it,” said Enrico Barausse of the Astrophysics Institute of Paris, who has worked on MOND-like theories. “99.9 percent of the time you rule out the hypothesis; the remaining 0.1 percent of the time you win the Nobel Prize.”"
(from https://www.quantamagazine.org/troubled-times-for-alternatives-to-einsteins-theory-of-gravity-20180430/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/troubled-times-for-alternativ... )
Of course everybody hopes to be in the team who "predicted" some discovery, and the "most obvious" predictions have always be more expected. But the nature simply is, and doesn't have to be "kind" to this or that theoretical physicist.