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Old 23-March-2008, 12:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Spaceman Spiff View Post
Hmmm....physicists, such as Andre Linde or Lisa Randall, who work on these and related problems would be surprised to learn that they aren't physicists. These models are mathematically and (as far as I know) physically self-consistent, but as of yet do not have many testably observable consequences.
I didn't say they weren't physicists. I said that theoretical physics is not science in the way we use the term. It is indeed math science, in that you can test the math. As I stated, they do no actual physical experimentation.
Real scientists take the math and do the real science to see if the mathematical predictions hold up in the real world.
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