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Yves Morier's avatar

Very interesting article.

As long as there are issues not explained by existing theories, it is worthwhile to develop others.

I like the criteria:

Must explain what existing theories explain

Must explain at least one non-explained issue.

Must allow to make testable predictions

Anthony Winter's avatar

Many thanks!!

Absolutely excellent article - informationally and convincingly!

Beverly Faye Stout's avatar

It is a summation of what we know. And there is a lot that we still don’t know. But the standard model is a good start. I would look for extra large dimensions as a way forward.

Charles Vane's avatar

Excellent piece! I, for one, am most willing to pay taxes to fund and support ALL forms of 'non-practical' research, and see what comes out. Better that than funding wars.

Anonymous Maven's avatar

Perhaps it’s time to take another look at what ancient civilizations had already understood and hold it up to what modern theory has so far discovered

Michael Bellamy's avatar

Nothing wrong with the data but the overall conclusions driven by an immovable apriori commitment to naturalism and materialism covering for atheism are grossly misguided. Here is a better answer:

https://mikebravoyanky.substack.com/p/retrospective-age-model-of-the-universe?r=5l4pf7&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

Eric Clayton's avatar

Is the one that I created by integrating all of the proper physics in a fully noncontradictory manner and had to add a few remaining noncontradictions to create The Final Theory of Physics that solved everything in a completely noncontradictory manner. It is why I have the highest earned ego in Mankind's entire history.

Michael Alan Hutson's avatar

I thought Dirac's original conception was of a negative-energy electron, which was only later reinterpreted as a positive-energy positron.

santaklaus's avatar

A lot of words for a 'want to be' explanation ... and the 'theories' do not prove anything other as this:

'We do not know anything but we have illusions.'

And that's it.

Genevieve Cheatham's avatar

That's why they're called "theories" 😊