nothing more fun that the bitterness of various academics getting pissy about whose work is ‘most essential’ or ‘primary’ or ‘pure’ or ‘foundational’.
best thing i did in life was leave academia and it’s pissing contests of legitimacy. or worse, how much money they could bring it by wooing the donors. funny how a lot of academic pretension just boils down to who can get the most money.
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theoretical physics is is a lot of pseudo science.
most of it is pure mathematics.
it’s only science strictly, when it’s hypothesis are verified by experimental evidence.
there are still particles in the standard model that are purely theoretical.
So… Math is pseudoscience?
yes. it’s not a science anymore than painting is.
you can certainly make mathematical models and paint pictures of theoretical concepts though.
science is the method of empirical verification. math is about as empirical as metaphysics is.
there can only be one!
Wanna hear my theory about dark matter being ghosts?
I hear you should do cocaine about those.
i can do you one better. i was in philosophy.
nothing more fun that the bitterness of various academics getting pissy about whose work is ‘most essential’ or ‘primary’ or ‘pure’ or ‘foundational’.
best thing i did in life was leave academia and it’s pissing contests of legitimacy. or worse, how much money they could bring it by wooing the donors. funny how a lot of academic pretension just boils down to who can get the most money.