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Seeking tangible results shouldn't be the goal of philosophy. Philosophy is not about tangible results. At its core, it's about thinking clearly.

It's my opinion that if scientists today had a better grasp of philosophy, then the string theorists and researchers studying dark matter would have come up with tangible results already, either by changing their models to actually make predictions, or dumping their models altogether and study alternatives. They would have tangible results instead of always being surprised that we can't find dark matter or surprised that new particles weren't produced at a given collider. Instead of demanding that larger and larger colliders be built, they would reflect on the models they have and attack the weaknesses. Instead of making increasingly sensitive instruments to find interactions between detectors and dark matter that might not even be there, they would give more serious considerations to alternate theories of gravity.



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