Physicists must start taking philosophy of science seriously or run the risk of stagnating, argues Sabine Hossenfelder (@skdh).https://iai.tv/articles/why-physics-has-made-no-progress-in-50-years-auid-1292 …
I share many of these sentiments.. As a frustrated particle theory PhD student, I wish we could just take a break from churning out papers on EFTs for dark matter and just collect our thoughts for a second
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“...experiments in the foundations of physics past the 1970s have only confirmed the already existing theories. None found evidence of anything beyond what we already know.” This is just wrong. We have discovered a multitude of new phenomena that lie outside of the SM...
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The observation of neutrino masses, the accelerated expansion of the universe, and the “dark matter” problem are all fundamental issues that are trying to be solved. And these are observations that don’t simply demonstrate what we “already know,” but that we need better models
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Same goes for dark sector gauge groups
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Sorry, but cosmology (not to be confused with physics) is more like religion than science. Just be glad they got stuck on dark matter explaining the unexplained rather than gnomes.
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Lmao what? Modern cosmology is a very sound observational science
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This is “publish or perish” pressure at work. But I’m going to push back a bit-a lot of big progress was made by finding inconsistencies from confirming existing hypotheses. LHC create huge general data that can be studied for decades and find new patterns, not just string theory
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I do agree that theorists at the frontier of “paradigm breaking” physics do need to change pace somehow, but literally no one knows how and they’re still expected to publish something. Tbh maybe we should just get more comfortable w some fields being experiment-forward
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It has always seemed to me that too many physicists are hardcore Popperians although his philosophy of science is quite out of date.
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Compare this problem to similar problem from the past. The Great Flood: Superstitious mumbo jumbo OR Really good (but wrong) SCIENTIFIC theory on why we find fish fossils in mountains. Ether was a similar problem.
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