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I always said that computer science was going to be the method to complete physics, whether it be finishing the Standard Model or proving finally Dark Matter is fiction, which is why we can't detect it. Maybe it's still not entirely clear, but just trust me.

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> proving finally Dark Matter is fiction

> Maybe it's still not entirely clear, but just trust me.

I honestly can't tell if your comment is satire. If it is, it is pretty good.

Why? Dark matter is a mass measurement anomaly. One way to solve the problem is to show that the original calculations were not anomalous.

You know its satire by the way it makes you feel.

When all you have is a hammer...

Good lord no, just no. Computer Science is not going to be the method to "complete physics." "Complete physics" isn't even a sensible phrase. Source: me, (former) physicist.

Evolutionary algorithm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_algorithm

Related techniques > Particle swarm optimization:

> Particle swarm optimization is based on the ideas of animal flocking behaviour.[7] Also primarily suited for numerical optimization problems

Symbolic EA will surpass all of human physics in the next 10 years.

To complete physics, which spacetime predictions can or must have zero error?

The notion that physics can ever be complete is...not even wrong.

Prove it.

Prove physics can be completed. There will always be higher energies, or greater or smaller scales to explore.

If we can account for every phenomenon that occurs within the scales that we can observe then we can probably claim that physics is complete. Unfortunately it seems that even that might be impossible

No, we can’t claim that. It would still be at best an approximation. Perhaps more accurate and/or precise than what we’ve got now, but an approximation nonetheless. We’ve long ago given up on even getting close to what you propose anyway.

I’m saying it would be a reasonable definition of complete, and no we absolutely have not given up on a theory of all phenomena

Bazinga.

Perhaps the oracle could indicate when the Career().solve_physics() routine will halt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem

So actually conducting scientific observations, with computers as the instrument?

The computer hosts the models. Observing and experimenting with or in digital models reveal physics effectively unattainable with traditional models or real world observation and experimentation.

> ... Dark Matter is fiction, which is why we can't detect it.

If you have a better idea that fits all the observations, publish and you'll get a Nobel.

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