Comments on the article “A Fight for the Soul of Science” by Natalie Wolchover in Quanta Magazine, December 16, 2015.
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”First Comment:
Theory of everything (string theory or whatever) can not be a science in the classical sense of the term. Not because of technology but of ontological considerations.
When human knowledge attempts to rise to the entire universe, it must include himself, and then it bumps into this dilemma: if its object is something real or a purely imaginary one.
No physicist could ever circumvent or break this dilemma, because no one can empirically determine the edges of the universe ‒ “everything” is an undetermined object, non-experimentable, a purely numenal one, which can not be seen from outside.
The only one who can help us in this discussion is Kant, with his critical solution to the four cosmological antinomies from the Critique of Pure Reason.
Without Kant we can not get out of this epistemological dead end of modern physics.
Second Comment:
When the subject of physics is not testable (as is the universe as a whole), physics becomes a metaphysics.
The question then is:…”
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