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Explaining phenomena is only one step. What I think is more important for a theory to have legs, is the ability to make predictions using the theory.
by tspiteri 17y ago
Explaining phenomena is only one step. What I think is more important for a theory to have legs, is the ability to make predictions using the theory.
- jacquesm 17y agoThere is this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdS/CFT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdS/CFT But it goes way over my head. Explaining existing phenomena better than any other theory that we currently have goes a long way though.
- pbhjpbhj 17y agoIt's not a theory until it can make testable predictions.
- gnaritas 17y agoI wouldn't quite say that because it implies we must have the ability to test it. A better thing to say is that a theory must provide falsifiable predictions, even if we don't have the ability to actually test it today.