The Positron and the Trend of Physics Toward Religion

**Nth Complexity**

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Nth Complexity:

Examples of this kind of thought abound in physics:

The idea of spontaneous symmetry breaking, a part of the modern
Standard Model of particle physics, says that the laws of physics are
symmetric in ways that the results of particle experiments are not
symmetric in.

There's nothing about spontaneous symmetry breaking that makes it
unique to high energy physics. It happens in a superconductor and
in superfluids.

To explain this apparent discrepancy, the direction in
which the symmetry is broken is allowed to vary from place to place.
It is turned into an asymmetry of the world around us instead of the
basic laws of physics. The trouble with this is that if it is true, we
ought to see places where the direction changes abruptly from one way
to another. These places are called "topological defects," and
depending on their shape, they are known as domain walls, cosmic
strings, monopoles, and textures. Many theoretical physics papers have
been written about them. Yet they do not exist.

Before you offeran opinion, you should learn something about the
subject.

I second that.

You use the term "crackpot" string theory, but offer no suggestions why it
isn't as good as any other theory when it comes to explaining observed
phenomena.

String Theory was developed because naive theories of quantum gravity
predicted infinite answers to measurable quantities. But no one has even
proven that the predictions of string theory are not themselves infinite!

String Theory, no matter how elegant, will play no role in science
unless it can make testable predictions. String theory has *not* one
testable prediction to its credit. Not one!

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