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I'm pretty sure that you walked out with no clothes in the scientific community, people would be happy to point out you have no clothes. People can make names
by bb88 3y ago
I'm pretty sure that you walked out with no clothes in the scientific community, people would be happy to point out you have no clothes. People can make names for themselves poking holes in other's theories. Hell, Einstein tried to do that with quantum mechanics without much success.
I guess, in that sense it's political. But the politics here is to try to bring about rational reasoning. And eventually, quantum mechanics won, not because it was the most reasonable theory, (it's not and who would design a universe this way?), but it has the most amount of experimental evidence to back it up.
- acyou 3y agoI don't think most physicists in this area think the Standard Model is "correct" in the sense of actually describing what makes the universe tick. They mostly recognize it as a set of curves that are extremely well fitted to experimental data, up to a point (at which point it fails completely and necessitates a switch to another model).