A Theory with No Strings Connected: Can Stunning Physics Become Incorrect? Excerpt
A physicist decries the trend of going after aesthetically theories that are pleasing lack empirical evidence
It’s December and it’s Munich as I write this. I will be during the Center for Mathematical Philosophy to wait a seminar that guarantees to resolve the relevant question“Why trust a theory?” The conference is arranged by the Austrian philosopher Richard Dawid, whoever book that is recent Theory together with Scientific Method caused some upset among physicists.
String concept is currently the essential idea that is popular a unified concept for the fundamental physics interactions. It posits that the world and all sorts of its content consists of small strings that are vibrating could be closed right straight straight back on by themselves or have free ends, may stretch or flake out, may separate or merge. And therefore describes every thing: matter, space-time, and, yes, you too. At the least that’s the concept. String theory needs to date no experimental proof talking because of it. Historian Helge Kragh, additionally in the conference, has contrasted it to vortex concept.
Richard Dawid, in their guide, utilized sequence theory as one example for the utilization of “non-empirical concept assessment.” By this he implies that to choose a great concept, being able to explain observation is not the only criterion. He claims that particular requirements which are not centered on findings will also be philosophically sound, and then he concludes that the method that is scientific be amended to ensure that hypotheses is assessed on purely theoretical grounds. More