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InTheEndEntropyWins t1_iwh5sxl wrote

Reply to comment by Giggalo_Joe in Most cosmologists say dark matter must exist. So far, it’s nowhere to be found. Examining the philosophy of science behind two rival theories can explain why. by ADefiniteDescription

>We would very likely have made much more progress with physics by now if instead of trying to get the data to fit our scientific theory, instead working to create new theories to fit the observations.

The greatest criticism in physics is around the focus on String theory, which is is some kind of new theory trying to fit the observations.

We already have the core model which works for pretty much every experiment ever done to remarkable degrees of precision.

Surely science should be evidence based. Theories that are accepted are ones that match experiments and observations, rather than ones that are simply nice mathematically/philosophically?

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Giggalo_Joe t1_iwhur4g wrote

In simplest terms, String Theory is wrong and a fools errand. Folks will give up on it eventually. Einstein was just a guy, a normal guy, with a decent theory. But he had an inkling he was on to something. It was decades before he really had any significant evidence to support it. For all the credit we give Einstein, he was trying to solve the math associated with gravitation for a decade and he couldn't. Hilbert and Schwarzschild both solved pieces of it with little effort before Einstein published his own answers after years of trying, and one of those guys did it while fighting WWI. Anyone who tries to claim Einstein is anything less than a god immediately gets shouted down in physics. He did some great things, but its time to build some new theories (that are not string theory). Remember, even Phlogiston theory was accepted science until it wasn't. I feel the critical flaw in Einsteinian physics is the idea that time is relative. Yes, critical to Einstein's theories, but the distinction that should be made a some point is between the 'perception of time' and 'actual time'. Some would say, what is time beyond what we can observe? Ultimately, that question makes as much sense as what is the world beyond what I can see? Time is real and absolute. Provable? Observable? Hard to say.

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