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Can someone explain like I'm 5: if someone has a physics theory, can't we just use it to predict stuff in the real world and see if it works? What does Eric We
by alexashka 6y ago
Can someone explain like I'm 5: if someone has a physics theory, can't we just use it to predict stuff in the real world and see if it works?
What does Eric Weinstein's theory enable that can't be done with what we've already got? That's what I'm interested in and I haven't heard anyone say anything on the matter, which strikes me as rather strange, given that uh, that's why people presumably do science?
- leephillips 6y agoI asked Dr. Weinstein about this directly (on Twitter) and his response is (I think I am being fair here) that this isn’t developed (he says “instantiated”) to the point where you can predict things, or even reproduce known behavior. At this point he is guided by not much more than mathematical beauty, he doesn’t expect that it is a correct theory of physics yet.
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