Science Will Only End Once We've Licked All the Objects in the Universe
Adam Mastroianniexperimental-history.com
Science Will Only End Once We've Licked All the Objects in the Universe
Physicists come off looking particularly bad. After attending a Stephen Hawking lecture about fantastical ideas like wormholes and superstrings and “mini-superspace,” Horgan concludes that Hawking is “less a truth seeker than an artist, an illusionist, a cosmic joker” whose work “can keep us awestruck. But it is not science.”
Adam Mastroianni • Science Will Only End Once We've Licked All the Objects in the Universe
I’m sympathetic to Horgan’s claim that there’s something rotten in the state of science, I can get on board with the idea that our scientific luminaries are a bunch of asses and buffoons, and I’m even open to the possibility that large swaths of supposed scientific activity have basically become interpretative dance.
Adam Mastroianni • Science Will Only End Once We've Licked All the Objects in the Universe
So I’m not worried about the limits that reality places on scientific discovery. The strictest limits are inside our own minds—the questions we never ask because they seem too obvious, the explanations we accept without sufficient evidence, the studies we never run because they’re too far outside the consensus