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ChristianKl comments on How do you tell proto-science from pseudo-science? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ChristianKl 28 November 2013 01:51:47AM 0 points [-]

I don't even know enough about the physics to know which equations you would have to run. However there are a lot of theoretical physics Phds.

I know one who tries to writes her thesis on two dimensional time. It's my impression that theoretical physicists just try out various different methods of writing formula in the hope of discovery something "beautiful" or something that at least makes testable predictions.