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Letter: If something is beyond testing, then is it science?

Published 6 April 2022

From Brian Horton, West Launceston, Tasmania, Australia

I appreciated Tom Gauld’s cartoon depicting a physics professor stressed out by the bizarre theories in parts of the field that no one actually understands (12 March, p 55).

I have noticed that some of your physics articles present ideas that aren’t currently testable, and in many cases may never be tested. Since a requirement of scientific study is that we can test our predictions, I often wonder if physics is a real science.

Issue no. 3381 published 9 April 2022

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