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Replying to @JikkuJose @Plinz
As a person extremely well familiar with both fields I can assure this is not the case. The difference lies in Go being a closed well-defined system. Physics has is open with new outside info coming in all the time.
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Replying to @agurevich23 @Plinz
2/ That may potentially trigger whole fields of research?
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Replying to @JikkuJose @Plinz
Not only can’t we rule it out, but it will most likely happen. I was just pointing the difference between go and physics is not complexity or amount research, but fundamental nature of the problem.
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Replying to @agurevich23 @Plinz
Yes, the problem is open ended as far as we can tell.
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Replying to @JikkuJose @agurevich23
Yes, Go is a closed world and physics an open one. But practically, the frequency of making observations that force us to change foundational physics is very low. The solution space should already be sufficiently constrained to derive a decent class of GUTs.
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In other words, progress in physics seems currently not hampered by experimental results that could help to decide between string theory and loop quantum gravity etc., but by our failure to unify existing, largely accurate models.
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Replying to @Plinz @JikkuJose
Fair position. But not my view. I feel currently experimental input is too limited and hence the space of possible theories is too wide.
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Replying to @agurevich23 @JikkuJose
If you are right, would we not expect that we have too many unified theories to decide between, instead of the current situation where there is NOT A SINGLE ONE. Isn't it clear that unified theories must exist, and we have been a bit too dense to grasp the necessary mathematics?
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Replying to @Plinz @JikkuJose
I think it’s more like we are failing to come up with a unified theory of a pizza slice, because we can’t see a whole pie.
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More like the difficulty of coming up with a theory of molecular dynamics in water while being a vortex inscribed on a traveling wavefront emergent over those dynamics. We probably have all the observations we need, but we still think of waves as real and not emergent.
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