Re: What are physicists trying to do?
- From: "Bill Hobba" <rubbish@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 02:51:03 GMT
"Martin Hogbin" <goatREMOVETHIS123@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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What are physicists trying to do?
This is a provocative question for some, especially those
who do not like or accept relativity or QM. Here is my
answer, which I believe to be close to the 'official' view.
Physicists are trying to produce a quantitative model of
the world in which we live which, within its realm of
applicability, agrees with experiment. The following
properties are also desirable.
1 Philosophically pleasing.
2 Mathematically tractable.
3 Wide realm of applicability.
4 Intuitive
I have two questions, the first to the (mainstream)
physicists. Is this your general understanding of what
physicists are trying to do?
I am not a physicist - just a guy interested in physics. But my take is
that physics has now progressed far enough to know its general direction -
namely a discovery of the symmetries that underlie nature.
Thanks
Bill
Secondly, to those who believe that physicists should do
more than the above. What more should they be doing?
--
Martin Hogbin
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