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Planets and sun in epicycles around the earth, planets and moons in cycles around the sun, planets in cycles around the sun and moons in cycles around planets,
by ravi-delia 4y ago
Planets and sun in epicycles around the earth, planets and moons in cycles around the sun, planets in cycles around the sun and moons in cycles around planets, that sort of thing. I used it as an example because "supersymmetry" is more a descriptor, than a theory unto itself. If you make your "theory" big enough it's going to technically be unfalsifiable, but that's more because you drew too large a bound than any mark against it.
- lisper 4y agoAh. OK, in that case... > When Kepler found a spinning object theory which worked, it wasn't overfitting. Well, yeah, that's true, but the important thing about Kepler was not the fact that it was a "spinning object theory", it was the switch from a "circular theory" to an "elliptical theory". (Also the switch from geocentrism to heliocentrism, but that was Copernicus, not Kepler). This is the sort of thing that the supersymmetrists are hoping to achieve, but have not yet achieved, most likely because nature is not supersymmetric in point of actual fact.