Killing a Physical Theory softly – Roulette Style
by Herbi Dreiner and Philip Bechtle from on (#XPE5)
As we await a status report from CERN's Large Hadron Collider - a word from the theorists
What is 'scientific progress'? What does it mean? How is it achieved?
Cleary, one avenue is improving our experiments, measuring effects more precisely and developing new experiments which shed light on previously uncharted realms of Nature. But what do we learn from these measurements? Do we verify a scientific theory? Not exactly.
