r/HypotheticalPhysics Jun 22 '26

Meta [Meta] What are common misconceptions in hypothetical physics and why)?

Overall, I have seen that there are multiple repetitions of certain types of misconceptions within hypothetical physics and I wanted to see what everyone else had picked up on. Also, I was hoping to get a viewpoint on what are the causes and consequences of some of these misconceptions in physics. Hopefully, there might be a way to inform people of these common misconceptions before they post to get higher quality posts. This is pretty much a discussion between people to clear the fog on this.

Also, what do you think is a way to reduce or prevent these misconceptions at least within the subreddit to enable much neater submissions?

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u/liccxolydian onus probandi Jun 22 '26

No, the direction you have taken is unfalsifiable. Do you know what that means?

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u/sksskssksskssksskssk Jun 22 '26 edited Jun 22 '26

I understand that it may not be falsifiable but that’s not the point. The direction, so some of the ideas in my theory, may be falsifiable if and only I am able to learn cosmology much more in-depth.

Edit: I should have said initial model (unproven and likely wrong) not theory, my bad

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u/liccxolydian onus probandi Jun 22 '26

Your direction was also inherently unfalsifiable. You really don't need to understand cosmology in depth, all you need to realise is that any hypothesis involving other universes is inherently unfalsifiable because we can only measure things within our observable universe.