On Pythagorean Illuminism and falsifiability “You can easily get the impression that sometimes the experiments are practically impossible. And even if they are practically possible, they might take so long that, practically speaking, you could go most of your life without having to confront [the results of an] experiment. And before that, anything goes. You can make up all kinds of la-la stories, and maybe every now and then, once every fifty years or so, experiment will come along and chop things down. So, great job if you can get it, right? You can just sit around, make shit up, and you’re never checked. That’s the impression that I would get.” -- Physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed on the difficulty of empirically falsifying theories in contemporary physics. Hossenfelder, Sabine. Lost in Math (p. 69). Basic Books. Kindle Edition. Why Falsifiability One of the greatest strengths of science is it principle of falsifiability. Falsifiability is the notion that you can perform an...
Practical, Engineering perspectives on Ontological Mathematics as provided by the Pythagorean Illuminati.