Daniel Whiteson
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Right?
You can't really tell, but you can tell when your physics is right.
Yes.
You can tell when your experiment is telling you something new, and that's satisfying and concrete and objective.
I think a lot of physicists latch onto that, and philosophy is hard to deal with from that perspective.
And I think that a lot of physicists have strong opinions about philosophy while at the same time not taking philosophy seriously.
Didn't they get into physics because of philosophy and didn't even know it?
Yeah, maybe.
Because they're asking questions.
They're asking questions and they think things about philosophical questions.
Like if you walk around CERN and you ask people, you think the Higgs is real?
Of course it's real.
What are you talking about?
We discovered it right here.
Like there's a Nobel Prize for it.
Are you crazy?
Like what are you smoking and where can we get some?
Right.
Because they think like,
We've discovered it.