Re:Dark Matter May Be Trapped in All the Black Holes
by ColanR on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @04:32PM
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He didn't say it very well, but I think he was getting at the Occams' Razor argument - this seems like an unnecessarily complex set of theories to explain the observed phenomena. (Not that I agree, but I think you missed his point)
Re:Dark Matter May Be Trapped in All the Black Holes
by Roujo on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @05:14PM
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IMO, Occam's Razor is only meaningful when there are two competing hypothesis, one of which is markedly simpler than the other. Mentioning it in a context of "surely it can't be this complicated" without pointing towards a simpler alternative doesn't strike me as very useful. I know you're not the person who made the original argument, just chiming in on the discussion.
Re:Dark Matter May Be Trapped in All the Black Holes
by TekMol on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @04:36PM
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accurately predict all physical behavior
Re:Dark Matter May Be Trapped in All the Black Holes
by nimih on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @05:12PM
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We cannot, as an example, currently predict the zeroes of the Riemann zeta function.
We have well understood mathematical models which correctly and accurately predict all physical behavior relevant to our everyday lives, and, further, correctly and accurately predict the majority of our observations of the universe around us, period. As tools for understanding our world, they are incredible achievements.
In spite of us knowing these models to be fundamentally incomplete, we have yet (to my understanding) to perform an experiment on Earth which contradicts them. More to the point, the theory which supersedes them will, by virtue of needing to replicate all experimental results so far, will likely be even more esoteric, complicated, wild, baffling, and impenetrable (and--with any luck--elegant, inspiring, and beautiful).