"Another idea is simplicity, or theoretical frugality, sometimes referred to as Ockham’s Razor. But given the enormous successes of string theory, it becomes clear that the best scientific theories should be as complicated as possible."
http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.00108
Hah! Not even wrong! Reference [8] says string theory leads to the obvious conclusion that it is strings all the way down and not turtles ...questions like “what would happen if Spiderman fought Superman?”, since this involves combining the Marvel Multiverse with the DC Multiverse. Thus we should assume Occam here. This principle, that if something has strong merit, then you want to make it as powerful as possible, is sometimes called ‘Occam’s Laser’.
ReplyDeleteAnd having read ’Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid’ - over and over again - like I am in some kind of strange loop, I can confirm strings also cover the situation mentioned at the end of "Falsifiability" that Proposition A dioes lead to Proposition B, and Proposition B always states “Proposition A is itself a theory”. Just as it says on this note I have to "look on other side"...which says ...
Hmmm...two of the authors are themselves F-words. "And they vanished in a puff of logic."
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