Eric Weinstein & Dan Green: Can New Physics Be Tested? (#299)
Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
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Effective Field Theory
I think it's very responsible and part of the good science wrap that I'm sticking you with is that you're trying to do something where you can't repeat the big bang. You can't run an experiment in the lab where everything goes right. effective theory is a great way of sorting some amount of wheat from some amount of chaff provided that you always keep in mind that it also bias us against bold guesses because many of our structures recur at various different strata of the effective stratification. There are a lot of things that need to be cleaned up to make it, but I think that it comes in many forms.
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