What If Magic Is Just Physics With Better Branding? (Every Tech Path Has a Free Spiritual Twin)

[Swampdweller900]

This is what I always keep banging on about - we have loads of data and no theory - which is made even worse by needing some kind of magical model to 'hang your hat on' and then, when the magic works, people declare that model to 'be the theory'. Cue loads of confusion when all the different models show equal amounts of success for different people

And this is the largest gap in the usual skeptic argument, "Well, prove it!" OK, well travel back in time to 1670 and prove: the speed of light in a vacuum, that light is electromagnetic radiation, that bacteria exist, that DNA exists, the mass of an electron, and that sperm and ova make babies. They start from the assumption that science is, right now, able to see and measure all phenomenon. Which is patently false, and any physicist would agree that we don't actually HAVE a full picture of the universe and how it works. It's a very good picture, but it's not complete. Otherwise all the attempts to solve a unified field theory would be done.

 

[Robert Ramsay]

And this is the largest gap in the usual skeptic argument, "Well, prove it!" OK, well travel back in time to 1670 and prove: the speed of light in a vacuum, that light is electromagnetic radiation, that bacteria exist, that DNA exists, the mass of an electron, and that sperm and ova make babies. They start from the assumption that science is, right now, able to see and measure all phenomenon. Which is patently false, and any physicist would agree that we don't actually HAVE a full picture of the universe and how it works. It's a very good picture, but it's not complete. Otherwise all the attempts to solve a unified field theory would be done.

TBF, your examples are experimental problems, not theory problems

The point is not that you couldn't demonstrate them, the problem is that you have to have an hypothesis so that you know to look.

There's no unified field theory because all the attempts at a unified field theory aren't worth a pitcher of warm spit.