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Carl,
Don't let them get to you - just ignore it if you dont like it
Clearly it winds you up immensely.
The internet is full of fringe groups in every possible area of interest or discipline, scientific and non scientific.
Rightly or wrongly they are entitled to have an opinion - do you really think that without scientific process its going to go anywhere ?
They will be judged on their merits along with everyone else - why fear otherwise.
You cannot make every layman a PhD of Physics, but give people at least some credit for sorting out the wheat from the chaff.
This is the colour of life - its doesn't all have to be right.
We dont live in a black and white universe.
As far as :
"Simulation algorithms can be tweaked with selected parameters to show almost anything that the designers want"
Sure thats true for much of the time - in many cases that is how some algorthms have been developed.
But not so for the String Theorists ! - a far as I know they have been trying vey hard to get a set of parameters that work to show a known environment and so far havent been able to tweak it !!!
The more attention you draw to them by your continuous criticism the more likely it is that people will one, become aware of them and two, even more likely take side with them - its one of those funny quirks of human nature.
Me - I'm not taking any sides - other than to acknowldge that the Standard model isnt working properly - yet it satisfactorily explains most everything in our normal lives so I will just have to accept that its the best we've got for now - but I dont necessarily accept it as fact - but more as a convenience.
Cheers
Rally
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