| pauluzzz1981 said: Let's get this clear. I love science. I'm reading alot about science, if i can understand it. But i was watching a program on discovery about the stars, dark matter, anti-materie and wormholes. I love the theories, but aren't they going too far? I was listening to a scientist, pressumably one of the smartest people of the world and he was talking nonsense. He was talking about alternate universes and that we can create them in the future with some device. My only question was, where do we leave another universe? Look, i know, i'm not so smart and we need people with vision. But where is the line between interesting theory and woohoo?? |
No science is not too much about assumptions. The discovery channel is filled with sensationalized nonsense put together by film crews with no concept of what they are filming. When one of my projects was on the channel they completely mischaracterized the implications of the science. Yes theoretical cosmology is far stranger than most people are ready to accept, many of the hypothesis will not stand up when we are capable of testing them. The LHC for example invalidated many hypotheses (money very well spent). The vast majority of science is based on empirical evidence and experimentation. Theoretical physics is dominated by mathematical models because the cost to test the assumptions is incredibly high.
