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“The current leading candidates for dark matter are particles predicted to exist from supersymmetric theories, extensions of current particle physics that include a new symmetry of Nature. The reader may recognize the “super” in supersymmetry from superstring theory, a candidate theory for unifying general relativity and quantum mechanics. As of the winter of 2014, no evidence for supersymmetry had been found, despite decades of intense search and the enthusiastic support of many physicists. At this point, it is unclear and somewhat doubtful that supersymmetry is realized in Nature.”
― The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning
― The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning
“objects are only a set of statistical likelihoods – a cloud of qualities-in-potential, yet to be distilled into any specific form. We can never simply find out what they are, because their attributes are unfixed until we observe them. They’re nothing without us. ”
― Minutes to Midnight: Twelve Essays on Watchmen
― Minutes to Midnight: Twelve Essays on Watchmen
“Finally, and most importantly, we must be concerned about the implications of multiverse theories for the future development of science itself. The multiverse theorists know that they are on weak ground regarding the Testability Principle, and rather than admit that their theories are not science, they argue instead that the rules of science must be adapted to accommodate this kind of metaphysical speculation. They want to change the very definition of science. This is a very slippery slope.”
― Farewell to Reality: How Modern Physics Has Betrayed the Search for Scientific Truth
― Farewell to Reality: How Modern Physics Has Betrayed the Search for Scientific Truth
“Los adultos siguen caminos. Los niños exploran. A los adultos les gusta recorrer siempre el mismo camino, cientos de veces, o miles; puede que nunca se les ocurra salirse de su ruta, arrastrarse bajo los rododendros, encontrar huecos en las vallas.”
― El océano al final del camino
― El océano al final del camino
“in experimental quantum mechanics we have run right up against what was previously perceived to be a purely philosophical barrier. The experiments are telling us that we can know nothing of reality-in-itself. We have to accept that the properties we ascribe to quantum particles like photons, such as energy, frequency, spin, polarization, position (‘here’ or ‘there’), are properties that have no meaning except in relation to a measuring device that allows them to be projected into our empirical reality of experience. We can no longer assume that the properties we measure necessarily reflect or represent the properties of the particles as they really are.”
― Farewell to Reality: How Modern Physics Has Betrayed the Search for Scientific Truth
― Farewell to Reality: How Modern Physics Has Betrayed the Search for Scientific Truth
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