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Incorrect predictions are all the rage nowadays, so here is mine: they will find an infinite amount of rule sets that could be the fundamental theory. However,
by TrainedMonkey 7y ago
Incorrect predictions are all the rage nowadays, so here is mine: they will find an infinite amount of rule sets that could be the fundamental theory. However, none of it would be testable, so people would pick their own based on their notion of simplicity and beauty. Eventually people would start looking into common properties of the candidate solutions and transformations between them.
- _jal 7y agoTake it further - eventually we will have conceptual physicists whose output is judged on purely aesthetic grounds, and rich people will collect them.
- jl2718 7y agoThat’s called string theory.
- skosch 7y agoNo need to be so smug, he says exactly that in the article. Take another look and read the section "Why This Universe? The Relativity of Rules".