On 27/04/2016 5:24 pm, Jesse Mazer wrote:
(Read a bunch of physicists getting philosophical about what their
field is all about, and you'll find it's a very widely-held
sentiment that physics is generally not be concerned with
non-mathematical explanations for physical laws--the semi-famous
'crackpot index' at http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html ,
concocted by physicist John Baez, even awards crackpot points to
anyone who complains that even if a theory 'predicts phenomena
correctly, it doesn't explain "why" they occur, or fails to
provide a "mechanism".')
Baez's crackpot index is good fun, but it does have some amusing side
effects:
37. 50 points for claiming you have a revolutionary theory but giving no
concrete testable predictions.
does seem to do considerable damage to current proponents of string
theory: they have the highest possible score on the crackpot index!
Bruce
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