Reality Uncovered | John Ellis, Sabine Hossenfelder, Jim Baggott
Philosophy For Our Times
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Is There a Relationship Between Ideas and Empirical Evidence?
Theory of supersymmetry was superfluous in the first place, says Jim Boulden. Science is based on a relationship between ideas and empirical evidence - you need facts. There's an enthusiasm for things which look mathematically beautiful, he argues. But that doesn't mean they're connected to anything we can find in the empirical world.
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