Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "What's Going Wrong in Particle Physics? (This is why I lost faith in science.)" video.

  1. I'm no physicist. When I took Modern Physics after a year of University Physics, much of what they taught seemed like a religion, rather than scientific theory. I could regurgitate the theory and do the math, but I abandoned further study in physics. The quantum mechanics seemed to be a vehicle for all manner of outlandish claims - even mysticism - and I still have a problem with "The speed of light is constant in all inertial reference frames, hence red shift, hence Big Bang." Along about that time, I read a sci fi about a civilization that lived entirely in a mud puddle, and the theories that civilization had about the nature of the universe, based on telescopes in the mud puddle reminded me of the evidence for all the claims made in physics. Anyway, I'm pretty sure I have no idea what I'm talking about. It just seemed almost as bad as the unassailable/undebatable claims made in social sciences based on zero evidence. Or in paleontology, when they find a tooth fragment and immediately insist it proves there were birds with 3 eyes and 300-foot wingspans. Claims made by quantum theory seemed wholly unjustified. Just because you resort to statistics because you're too big to actually see the actual phenomenon doesn't impart magical qualities to the universe. You're just too big (and probably too slow) to actually see what's actually going on. Just because the bell curve has an infinite tail doesn't mean there's a 20-foot-tall mouse somewhere.
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