Re:Cargo Cult Science – Feynman's 1974 Caltech commencement ...
by Tostino on Monday March 06, 2023 @01:26PM
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It matters when the limited resources are spent chasing unicorns that are vanishing unlikely to actually be there.
That is part of the argument. Those dollars could go other places than these giant particle accelerators that haven't shown anything much since the Higgs Boson, and no theories are more than guessing that we will.
Something is there causing those phenomena. People have a theory that it may be unicorns, so they are out looking for unicorns. Those are supposed to be hard to find, and people are still searching on the hardest possible places that can hold them. It may also not be unicorns, on what case nobody has any idea what it may be. Some people are trying to make such theories, but none got a good one yet.
On this level of detail, there is nothing wrong at all with any party of the above. All of the problems are with finer details.