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what does she propose instead? spend more on theorists? spend less on experiments? spend less on the whole?

• bane 4y ago
  She's proposing that the combined brain power of the community can be put to better propose.
  • addicted 4y ago
    How does this work in practice. Do you force everyone to work on a theory they don’t believe in or are not interested in? Do we think that will actually yield useful results? Scientists are individually working on theories/ideas that they find most interesting. The only way this sounds like practically enforceable is if we have a situation where funding agencies are only funding a single theory and refusing to fund people doing research in other areas. But I don’t believe that is the case.
• simiones 4y ago
  She proposes to develop theories in more promising areas, ones that have explicit conflicts between different theories (quantum gravity, quantum measurement) or conflicts between theories and observation (dark matter). The biggest problem with something like Supersymmetry is that, contrary to what the previous poster was saying, it is not a falsifiable theory. It has free parameters that can be used to predict that supersymmetric partners to the known particles would have any mass that hasn't been ruled out yet, more or less (maybe they can't be planet sized, but they can certainly have masses that would require accelerators the size of a solar system to rule out).