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More than a theory | Sabine Hossenfelder, Bjørn Ekeberg, Sam Henry

Philosophy For Our Times

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Is There a Path Dependency in the History of Science?

There is a general problem for er the development of the sciences, lik physics and cosmology. It comes up against certain limits at there are fundamental limits. And i think what both sabina and sam are pointing to is the progress seemingly stalls since we have this idealist notion of progress from a centuryg. We're talking about a scale here that is 20 orders of magnitude higher than the scale of particle physics. This leads to circumspensive problems, just how confident we can be in our own measurements about the scale itself and so on.

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