But which methods? I hope the philosophers have a plan. Hence, the more difficult new experiments become, the more care theorists must take to not sleepwalk into a dead end while caught up in a beautiful dream. Data don’t come to us anymore-we have to know where to get them, and we can’t afford to search everywhere. But increasingly we first need theories to decide which experiments are most likely to reveal new phenomena, experiments that then take decades and billions of dollars to carry out. Sabine is creator of the popular YouTube channel 'Science without the gobbledygook. Discover more authors you’ll love listening to on Audible. In the past, we muddled through because data forced theoretical physicists to revise ill-conceived aesthetic ideals. Browse Sabine Hossenfelder’s best-selling audiobooks and newest titles. But leaving aside that we could be further along had scientists not been distracted by beauty, physics has changed-and keeps on changing. “Hasn’t it always worked out in the end?” It has. “Arguments from beauty have failed us in the past, and I worry I am witnessing another failure right now.
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