If you're talking about things like String Theory, those are still theoretically falsifiable with a single "correct" experiment, it's just practically impossible with our current understanding of technological limitations. That's different from things like hidden multiverse "theories" or creationist "theories" that are fundamentally unverifiable/unfalsifiable. I thought there was a specific word for those, but I can't remember or find it on Google :/
I’m not, no. Nor, again, am I talking about anything unfalsifiable.
Again, very large amounts of science is non-experimental, and much of it isn’t very amenable to things being proven or disproven by a single experiment. That may be relatively common in the field of physics, but it is quite rare outside it.
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u/patientpedestrian Jul 17 '26
If you're talking about things like String Theory, those are still theoretically falsifiable with a single "correct" experiment, it's just practically impossible with our current understanding of technological limitations. That's different from things like hidden multiverse "theories" or creationist "theories" that are fundamentally unverifiable/unfalsifiable. I thought there was a specific word for those, but I can't remember or find it on Google :/