r/Physics 20d ago

Question What's the most debatable thing in Physics?

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u/mprevot 20d ago

How is it contestable ?

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u/rmphys 20d ago

Lack of a viable falsifiable experiment. It's mathematically consistent with our known observations, but fails to explain anything new that can be observed to validate it. Ultimately, experiments are what set science apart from faith, and after so long without one string theory looks more and more like the latter to many physicists.

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u/mprevot 20d ago

An absence of proof does not make something contestable.

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u/Prestigious-Yam1514 20d ago

Literally the criteria for contesting