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> have to have some charge it can also be a new interaction driven by a completely different fundamental force. it's extremely unlikely, but "have to" is quite

• enkid 6y ago
  How do you even judge the likelihood of something like that?
  • LoSboccacc 6y ago
    same as everything else, the more changes it requires from the current model the less likely it's the solution
    • enkid 6y ago
      That's not how I judge likelihood at all. If you were to say that there is more mathematical wiggle room for other explanations, I would be more likely to agree, but simply having to change models has no impact on likelihood. That thinking would make Quantum Mechanics, Special Relativity, Natural Selection, or Genetics unlikely. Your argument could even be used to explain why it's more likely that the earth is flat because that's the intuitive model.
      • LoSboccacc 6y ago
        unlikely doesn't mean it's less good of a theory. it means the bar for verification/falsification is so much higher.