Re: No comments on "An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything" ?

On 20 Nov, 07:06, robert bristow-johnson <r...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

WOW! i surely do not get the philosophy (of science) behind this
statement. now, admittedly, i don't know squat about this paper, nor
the quality or veracity of the mathematics or science behind it. and
with the Bogdanov debaclehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogdanov_Affair
, i realize that pseudo-scientific crap can be hidden behind
"mathematical mysticism". but i cannot understand the sentiment
behind this objection if the theory seems to have some empirical
support ("appears to reproduce certain aspects of reality").

I gave above the example of Kepler's polyhedron (polygon) scheme for
the planetary orbits (http://hyperion.cc.uregina.ca/~astro/
Kepler_poly.html ) to illustrate my point. As is evident from Table 2
on this page, this scheme also fits the observations quite well (apart
from being kind of 'beautiful' due to the symmetries involved), but it
is really not more than a mathematical ad-hoc representation of the
observations, not a physical explanation.

Thomas

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