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Re:We’ve got a science opportunity overload: Launching the W... by leephillips on Thursday April 07, 2022 @09:49AM (#30944387)
People do say the exact same thing about string theory. They challenge it to show that it’s science. There may be some experiments in the not too distant future; we’ll see what happens. At least string theory makes some predictions and is relativistically correct.
Re:We’ve got a science opportunity overload: Launching the W... by dudeinjapan on Thursday April 07, 2022 @01:49PM (#30947969)
String theory has been around since the late 1960s. To date, has it made a single prediction which was later experimentally found to true? (i.e. aside from "predicting" the existence of particles which were already known to physics)
Re:We’ve got a science opportunity overload: Launching the W... by dudeinjapan on Thursday April 07, 2022 @02:01PM (#30948124)
(Edit: given the large umbrella it encompasses, I suppose you could consider things like AdS/CFT correspondence, where a direct "domain transform" with quantum field theory is proven, to be a useful tool that in some instances furthered QFT. But such results are scant given the enormous amount of brainpower allocated to string theory as a whole.)
Re:We’ve got a science opportunity overload: Launching the W... by leephillips on Thursday April 07, 2022 @02:42PM (#30948670)
No. That’s why I said that people “challenge it to show that it’s science.” Why are you bringing up string theory as if I’m defending it?
Re:We’ve got a science opportunity overload: Launching the W... by dudeinjapan on Thursday April 07, 2022 @03:03PM (#30948945)
I'm just suggesting that Wolfram's "theory" belongs in the same category as string theory. On some level it is probably a useful tool to understand something about science, say, beyond Deepak Chopra-esque woo-woo ("We are all energy, we are all vibrations", etc.) But it's not currently obvious that there's a there there.
Re:We’ve got a science opportunity overload: Launching the W... by leephillips on Thursday April 07, 2022 @03:08PM (#30949018)
I think it’s worse in the sense that I alluded to when I mentioned “relativistically correct.”
Re:We’ve got a science opportunity overload: Launching the W... by posix_me_less on Thursday April 07, 2022 @12:24PM (#30946664)
> makes some predictions and is relativistically correct.

Many of which are obviously wrong. We do not observe 11-dimensional world.