〈 Berger | Dillon 〉

cause it was purely phenomenological.. the math worked, but we didn't know how gravity "reached" out and communicated it was there .. later einstein developed a gravitational field theory that answered this

of course this rabbit hole goes arbitrarily deep

Ahhh so you meant historically this was one case! And to move to more cases we just say (insert anything for which the underlying theory is known here) lol

right .. perhaps i misread it .. wasn't really sure what the hive mind bit was about

We are a collective consciousness that provides answers I nominate the hierarchy problem

i see .. you're saying that maybe there is no underlying mechanism for the hierarchy but that we are convinced that there must be

I feel like a lot of BSM ideas fall under than umbrella (strong CP, CC problem, flavor structure, GUT's, etc) Things look curious/suggestive and we think there should be a reason, but they are much more aesthetic problems than something like dark matter

Yeah a bunch of folk have been up in arms about the expectation being aesthetic (I’ve been suspicious too) but I‘ve been wondering if the same can be said historically for many physical phenomena that we wanted to explain