Episode 3: The Popper-Deutsch Solution
The Theory of Anything
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How to Critique a Conjectured Explanation
There is one philosophy that science is just about making predictions. Without an explanation you don't even know what to try to predict, he says. The vast majority of conjectures get killed way before the stage and they're not thinking hard enough when doing it. For example if your theory violates say the laws of thermal dynamics or the laws of conservation there's a very good chance because scientists have this association with those two laws that they just don't get violated. There are no cases we know of where they get violated.
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