Comment not a big deal (Score 1) 162
science is all about making predictions/hypotheses and then testing them. that's precisely whats been done. axion was predicted, experiments were done, axion wasnt found.
as a physicist/scientist myself i value negative results every bit as much as positive results.
QFT is a HUGE playground with losts of room and experiments have narrowed it down a LOT. but if there's more room to explore then we will explore. that's science.
the next question is one of falsifiability: but what does that mean? some argue that string theory is NOT falsifiable. but in reality it largely IS (we just dont have the tools to run the experiments). it makes incredible predictions! however, most would now agree that string theory likely isnt the story of our universe. but how did we get here? we used QFT to make a model of reality and we studied the shit out of it. and lo and behold it uncovered new knowledge that mathematicians are happy to explore for the sake of exploring.
the point is, in physics we only know about 5% of the universe and we dont even have an understanding of how life emerges much less that 95%. so we need ideas, lots of ideas, and we need to test those ideas and that's whats being done in particles physics.
as an aside all this "awful bad terrible study of QFT" has led to a LOT of experimental condensed matter physics. many of the hypothetical fundamental particles particles physicists came up have been found as emergent behavior in exotic materials.
so please, sabine, dont claim it's all useless or bad science. you go do your modified gravity. MOND is an idea that should be explored just like SUSY is an idea that should be explored. get over it
