Realism has been the back one of physics metathinking i. E insistence of a truth marker for every truth.
It has a big influence in deciding how to incorporate or reject new ideas about progress in science or emphasis on certain a priori principles of how the world has to be, because science is benefited from is and its party a realist project. For example it promotes the Application of old tools to new problems and to theoretical unification, although it is valid route to unification andcrelating lod theories to new is a value added practice for this aim.
However, it it has led to undue conservativism in scientific activities like theory choice i. E anything beyond paradim Examples of science thinking is suspect unless it is intuitively similar to the real things
(same entities postulated as old theories for reasons beyond and above the experiences that postulated these theories) for is to believe they are real.
I think it has. In areas that are so far mysterious and very far from solution, it may simply be premature and counter-productive to demand data to support the usual plodding incrementalism of science. Consider the deep nature of consciousness. Leaps of realization, which start out as leaps of suspicion, are necessary. It is necessary to operate on ideas which are themselves fuzzy and thinly supported. Otherwise, the composition may be soundly arranged yet not worth listening to.
Philippos Afxentiou Hi Philippos. I don’t think realist tradition is the problem. I think the problem is the inertia of scientific thinking when a paradigm shift is long overdue.
As an example we have been content to stay with quantum theory as a predictive mathematical formalism when no one can agree about the physical description.
The special relativity case is also problematic. See the talk given by Einstein in 1920:
Preprint Ether and the Theory of Relativity
We continue with the Big Bang theory when it violates the law of conservation of energy and the second law of thermodynamics and there is no explanation for dark matter or dark energy.
Also the observation by JWST of galaxies with a look back time of 13 billion years is in conflict with all current Big Bang theoretical models.
Data Prerecording of Conference Presentation on Dark Matter and Dark Energy
Richard
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