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Einstein also said "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler" Exactly how simple can somethig complex get? But...

The question is how far to take this. MY thinkking is that abandoning the dS vaccum, although it can be seen as technical construct...

It turns out that the 500-page paper had a forerunner in 2000 that's just 100 pages, so it might be easier to read. :-) "de Sitter...

I thought I would start a thread, as as spinoff to perhaps highlight and contemplate of that the ideas in the paper mitchell porter...

Huge paper, I havent ready it through fully but skimmed parts of it it seems to me, to be a step in the right direction. One...

for example Hawking and others https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-model-dependent-realism-2699404 I gets cumbersone to provide a...

Ah I see. I share your objection if if we talk about metaphysical realism! You are right of course. ie what just exists independent of...

Maybe it could be interpreted so that the map is always right. That wasn't what i meant. What i mean was just the different modelling...

I refer the the general modelling categorical approaches - not specific theories. Though there aren't a lot of "general theorems" of...

I have been busy with non-physics stuff lately so i am lagging follow up. But I just stumbled on that funny tombstone. I must say that...

After having read Brian Greene's The Elegant Universe I have been a bit enthusiastic, but unfortunately ...