Speculative physicists are headed in the wrong direction. — Metaphysician Undercover
What if, after all, the Universe isn't actually physical? Then what? — Wayfarer
What if, after all, the Universe isn't actually physical? Then what?
— Wayfarer
How could that ever be tested? What could it even mean to say that the physical world is not physical? It is physical by definition. — Janus
No one has won a Nobel prize for philosophy because there isn't one. — Bitter Crank
Speculative physicists are headed in the wrong direction. — Metaphysician Undercover
Speculation is just that, meaning we don't know if it's right or wrong before we test it. — Isaac
No one has won a Nobel prize for philosophy because there isn't one. Old Alfred figured that If philosophy hadn't accomplished its aims after 2500 years, there was just no likelihood of prize-worthy breakthroughs in the future. — Bitter Crank
The whole issue with string theory is that it can’t be tested. — Wayfarer
How can you possibly judge the 'rightness' or 'wrongness' of the direction of speculation? The idea doesn't even make sense. Speculation is just that, meaning we don't know if it's right or wrong before we test it. — Isaac
I believe that some judgements at the base of modern speculative physics are incorrect. — Metaphysician Undercover
The totality of the physical world or domain just is usually defined as the Universe Even if there were another separate "ideal" domain (and how would we know there was since all our means of detecting anything are physical) it would not be thought to be part of the universe, but something transcendent. — Janus
But other people believe that they are correct. What are you going to do, shout at each other until one gives up? — Isaac
You talk about ensuring things are in line with our experience, yet you maintain this bizarre notion that what is 'correct' can be ascertained by thought alone in complete contradiction to our overwhelming failure to do so. — Isaac
People still disagree now about exactly the same matters they disagreed about thousands of years ago. If a thousand years of discussion hasn't yielded a sufficiently convincing answer, where does that leave your 'belief' when measured by your own standards of correspondence with experience? — Isaac
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