/sci/ - Science & Math

>>2993081
Good lord, maybe you should re-read them. My first post indicated that modern physics is stagnant at the edge, and that I personally hold the conviction that it is largely a foundational problem (most likely in set theory and/or logic) or in some of the foundations of mathematics where the correlation to physical reality is not precise.

THUS, the remedy will be to make changes to the way we do things (I mean, read about Brouwer's intuitionist logic as a possible alternative [not the one I'm suggesting, mind you]). That's not empirical, that's back at the beginning, that's philosophy.

>>2993095
There's a reason I changed terms to make the distinction clearer (since after all you keep changing your mind about what you're arguing). Planck's work on the Black-Body problem was rooted in the science he was working in at the moment, and the terminological shift arose from his implementation of Boltzmann's mathematical formalism. The necessity of shifting interpretations was not made based on empirical evidence, and it was not some kind of falsifiable claim he was making. He just changed the picture because otherwise it made no sense to him. This is perfectly, and satisfactorily science. I have never suggested anything to the contrary, but it is not strictly empirical. It was, if anything, a stylistic or cognitive necessity. The problem of how you justify that 'paradigm shift' to the clamoring relativists I leave as an exercise to the reader.

It seems fairly obvious that dark energy/dark matter are akin to the aether in the overall evolution of physics.

They're conditional hypotheses that are necessary given our current understanding but we're always actively working to undermine them with experimental evidence if we can.

Also, the 'degrees of acceptance' feature of scientific progress is just part and parcel with the methodology. The longer a useful idea goes without being refuted the more likely it is to 'ossify.' It's not necessarily a bad thing, either, since it frees us to explore farther and maybe set up experiments which contradict our cherished ideas.

Good luck with that whole induction gap thing.