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The Relationship Between Mathematics and Physics
This does tap into a wider and actually ongoing debate at the moment about the relationship between mathematics and physics. If you put forward a theory that simply cannot tested because some fundamental quality of the theory is not amenable to an experimental or observational probe, then you're doing math,. That's not the case with the ideas that we're developing. It's hard to test them, but there's not a fundamental reason why they can't be tested at some point. There are physicists who were brought up in an earlier tradition when the cutting edge ideas could be tested within months or years. I think it's a different kind of rhythm that physiciss of the theoretical and the experimental orientation, need to get
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