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| title = Asking the Right Questions to Obtain Scientific Answers | | title = Asking the Right Questions to Obtain Scientific Answers | ||
| url = [https://web.archive.org/web/20060630001640/http://www.wbabin.net/physics/cook2.htm Link to paper (Internet Archive)] | |||
| author = [[Nigel Bryan Cook]] | | author = [[Nigel Bryan Cook]] | ||
| keywords = quantum mechanics, string theory | |||
| published = 2006 | | published = 2006 | ||
| journal = [[General Science Journal]] | | journal = [[General Science Journal]] | ||
}} | }} | ||
'''Read the full paper''' [https://web.archive.org/web/20060630001640/http://www.wbabin.net/physics/cook2.htm here] ''(archived copy — the original link is no longer available)'' | |||
==Abstract== | ==Abstract== | ||
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Back in 1996, ?popular physics' authors were flooding the media with hype about backward time travel, 10 dimensional strings, parallel universes and Kaku flying saucer speculation, and were obviously lying that such unpopular non-testable guesses were science. | Back in 1996, ?popular physics' authors were flooding the media with hype about backward time travel, 10 dimensional strings, parallel universes and Kaku flying saucer speculation, and were obviously lying that such unpopular non-testable guesses were science. | ||
[[Category:Scientific Paper]] | [[Category:Scientific Paper|asking right questions obtain scientific answers]] | ||
[[Category:Relativity]] | [[Category:Relativity|asking right questions obtain scientific answers]] | ||
Latest revision as of 07:30, 21 July 2026
| Scientific Paper | |
|---|---|
| Title | Asking the Right Questions to Obtain Scientific Answers |
| Read in full | Link to paper (Internet Archive) |
| Author(s) | Nigel Bryan Cook |
| Keywords | quantum mechanics, string theory |
| Published | 2006 |
| Journal | General Science Journal |
Read the full paper here (archived copy — the original link is no longer available)
Abstract
Because of Drs Susskind and Witten, the media has let string theory go on without asking for definite testable predictions. I don't think the layman public takes much notice of ?theory' it can't understand. There are three types of not-yet-falsified theory:
- Experimentally confirmed but mathematically abstract and possibly incomplete (Standard Model, relativity, quantum mechanics, etc.)
- Not experimentally confirmed but popularised with best selling books, but possibly testable (Hawking radiation, gravity waves, etc.)
- Untestable/not falsifiable (over-hyped string theory's vague landscape ?predicting' 10500 vacua, 10/11 dimensions, vague suggestions of superpartners without predicting their energy to show if they can be potentially checked or not, ?prediction' of unobservable gravitons without any testable predictions of gravity)
Back in 1996, ?popular physics' authors were flooding the media with hype about backward time travel, 10 dimensional strings, parallel universes and Kaku flying saucer speculation, and were obviously lying that such unpopular non-testable guesses were science.