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The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete. “The reason physics has drifted into theoretical speculation about n-dimensional grand unified models over the past few decades (the ‘beautiful story’ phase of a discipline starved of data) is that we don’t know how to run the experiments that would falsify the hypotheses — the energies are too high, the accelerators too expensive, and so on.”

06/24/08 • 01:30 PM • ScholarlyScience • No Comments

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