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Falsification is hard work, and rarely reaches a tidy end point. Even now, according to Curceanu, Roger Penrose — who was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physic
by iainmerrick 4y ago
Falsification is hard work, and rarely reaches a tidy end point. Even now, according to Curceanu, Roger Penrose — who was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on general relativity — is working on a version of the Diósi-Penrose model in which there’s no spontaneous radiation at all.
It's incredible how influential Penrose has been for such a long time, and continues to be. As far as I can tell (I'm interested but far from an expert) very few theorists are coming up with genuinely testable ideas in this area.
- lamontcg 4y agoMost scientists either blindly accept collapse as a mechanism and then happily use the highly accurate math and don't care it isn't testable, or if they think about it at all they adopt something untestable like MWI and then happily use the highly accurate math and don't care it isn't testable. Thinking hard about testable theories in this area is incredibly slow progress and doesn't pay a lot of bills (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/06/peter-higgs-boson-academic-system https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/06/peter-higgs-...)