In fairness the fine-tuning / epistemology / scientific method tap dancing seems to affect the string/supersymmetry crowd a lot more than the astrophysics crowd. The crossover act seems to be superpartners as WIMP candidates. My original comment didn’t reflect that.
Five or six freely chosen parameters is a lot. You know the von Neumann quote. If those parameters have continued to fit vastly more precise measurements without changing for 30 years that’s starting to sound like failure to falsify.
And if so, ultimately you folks have posed the particle/high-energy folks a problem: we found a shitload of weakly/non-interacting mass, where’s my particle bruh?
To the layperson, exotic undetectable mass sounds like something that will turn out to be a good metaphor for something deeper, but that doesn’t mean a lot via the definition of layperson.
Even laypeople know the string folks are full of shit: Witten has a Fields and not a Nobel for a reason.
Five or six freely chosen parameters is a lot. You know the von Neumann quote. If those parameters have continued to fit vastly more precise measurements without changing for 30 years that’s starting to sound like failure to falsify.
And if so, ultimately you folks have posed the particle/high-energy folks a problem: we found a shitload of weakly/non-interacting mass, where’s my particle bruh?
To the layperson, exotic undetectable mass sounds like something that will turn out to be a good metaphor for something deeper, but that doesn’t mean a lot via the definition of layperson.
Even laypeople know the string folks are full of shit: Witten has a Fields and not a Nobel for a reason.