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Physics Said These Quantum Particles Couldn't Exist. Now, Math Has Proven They Can
(www.iflscience.com)
General discussions about "science" itself
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You can prove a lot of things with math. Doesn't mean they're real.
“And math’s just physics unconstrained by precepts of reality ”
Source: xkcd, every major’s terrible, square 2
Here's a better media coverage of the same paper https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00030-5
In statistics and with arbitrarily questionable assumptions that might be true, but there's other math.
On the contrary, fundamental physics has been completely static for half a century. That doesn't really have much to do with your main point, though.
I mean, you're right in statistics, and statistics comes up constantly, but there's no way to directly prove there's only 100 prime numbers, for example. In number theory, there's absolute truths, and a correct proof will inevitably align with them.
Fair point. And another poster voiced his frustration with the headline. And I guess I am not smart enough to realize that this was a poor article.
I'm not being smarmy, I honestly didn't realize it was a bad science article.
As a rule of thumb, you can usually assume anything from iflscience is trash tier.
Understood. I'll note that moving forward. Thanks!
When you predict a new phenomenon from a current model, either you've opened the door to the discovery of this new phenomenon or you've demonstrated a shortcoming in the model. Both are useful to science.