Comment by eximius

18 days ago

There is so much anger in this thread because someone is making qualitative predictions instead of quantitative predictions (except there are some statistical predictions, albeit based around correlations to existing observational phenomenon, but that seems valid to me?).

In some ways, it is a symptom of the success of science so far that we consider that the baseline for credibility.

If the predictive observations from this theory hold true, then it's possible a mathematical framework can be developed for it.

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oh_my_goodness  18 days ago

I consider it underhanded to label reasonable disagreement as "anger."

  • eximius  18 days ago

    Those are not the comments I'm talking about. There are some in this thread that are derisive due to its focus on qualitative theory and predictions instead of a mathematical foundation.

    • nyeah  18 days ago

      I can't quite see why complaints about the lack of quantitative support are unreasonable. They sound reasonable to me. In fact there seems to be a very broad consensus that the article lacks supporting numbers.

colechristensen  18 days ago

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  • throwaway5752  18 days ago

    It strikes me similar to something that is LLM generated. It relies very much on the relationship between words, like how a non-practitioner in a field might develop a fatuous proof or theory.

    I'm not saying it is wrong, either. But it's not quantitative and makes weak predictions with very little work into the roadmap to experimentally validate the ideas.

    • colechristensen  18 days ago

      I might be more forgiving if it didn't literally start with

      >For scientists interested in citation

      which is so pretentious and amateurish it's laughable. If the whole thing was written in the tone of "I'm an amateur and this is my pet theory" it would be fine, not interesting to me but whatever, fanfiction is a thing. If it was curious "could this be it?", sure. But it's pretending very much to be legitimate scientific work which is just strange behavior and it's pulling people in who don't know any better who are taking it seriously.

      Intentionally fooling people for your own ego is gross.

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