> At a trivial level it is still a hypothesis that each deviation from newtons laws (as in on a per galaxy basis) we observe has a common cause. But let's say that's quite trivial and it's an extremely easy hypothesis to accept.
Even this isn't commonly accepted hypothesis that explains the problem named Dark Matter. MOND postulates that while most of the observed effects have the same cause, that gravity works differently, it also states that smaller effects observed might have another source.
She's lumping all those observations because they are lumped by most physicists because they might potentially have a single cause and thus might be parts of singular problem. Maybe at some point Dark Matter problem will have to be split into several but we are not at that point of knowledge yet.
Physicists have always searched for theories of everything and I haven't seen where the friction introduced by that search prevented them from finding out how parts like quantum mechanics or gravity work even if they don't have any underlying common mechanism. On the contrary, idea that vastly different phenonmenons might have a single cause led to deep advancements and insights like in the case of Newtonian gravity.
Philosophy is BS. It doesn't matter. What matters if there's data available. Until there is, everything is open to ridicule because all ideas are ridiculous until some of them are shown to be true. Then the next generation learns about them at schools, integrates them into their intuition and they no longer see how ridiculous they are.
> On the contrary, idea that vastly different phenonmenons might have a single cause led to deep advancements and insights like in the case of Newtonian gravity.
And there are many cases where you absolutely can't do that. For example, to fully explain how nuclei work, you must have both a strong AND weak nuclear force.
> Physicists have always searched for theories of everything
searching for theories of everything is arguably a big part of why physics is broken right now and hasn't made major progress outside of a few big experiments in decades
> Philosophy is BS. It doesn't matter. What matters if there's data available.
"What matters is if there's data available" is a philosophy of science. Look a lot of philosophy is BS, but you're peddling in the noncentral fallacy here. The philosophy of science is extremely important, and as a former working scientist I've seen so many scientists get caught up in their own fraud/self-delusion because they don't have a central philosophy of science to guide their efforts.
Even this isn't commonly accepted hypothesis that explains the problem named Dark Matter. MOND postulates that while most of the observed effects have the same cause, that gravity works differently, it also states that smaller effects observed might have another source.
She's lumping all those observations because they are lumped by most physicists because they might potentially have a single cause and thus might be parts of singular problem. Maybe at some point Dark Matter problem will have to be split into several but we are not at that point of knowledge yet.
Physicists have always searched for theories of everything and I haven't seen where the friction introduced by that search prevented them from finding out how parts like quantum mechanics or gravity work even if they don't have any underlying common mechanism. On the contrary, idea that vastly different phenonmenons might have a single cause led to deep advancements and insights like in the case of Newtonian gravity.
Philosophy is BS. It doesn't matter. What matters if there's data available. Until there is, everything is open to ridicule because all ideas are ridiculous until some of them are shown to be true. Then the next generation learns about them at schools, integrates them into their intuition and they no longer see how ridiculous they are.