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X-WR-CALNAME: IAC Talks: Open Astronomy Seminars
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SUMMARY:What's Wrong with Physics Today - Why the standard models are an er
 osion of science
DESCRIPTION:What's Wrong with Physics Today - Why the standard models are a
 n erosion of science\nDr. Alexander Unzicker\n\nThe concordance model of c
 osmology with its constituents dark matter and  dark Energy is an establis
 hed description of some anomalous  observations. However, a series of addi
 tional contradictions indicate  that the current view is far from satisfac
 tory. Rather than describing  observations with new numbers, it is argued 
 that science should reflect  its method, considering the fact that real pr
 ogress was usually achieved  by simplification. History, not only with the
  example of the epicycles, has shown many  times that creating new ad-hoc 
 concepts dominated over putting in doubt  what had been established earlie
 r. Also critical astrophysicists often believe that lab-tested particle  p
 hysics has reliable evidence for its model. It is argued instead that  the
  very same sociological and psychological mechanisms have been at  work an
 d brought particle physics in a still more deperate situation  long ago. A
 s an example, a couple of absurdities of the recent Higgs  boson announcem
 ents are outlined. It seems inevitable that physics needs a new culture of
  data evaluation,  raw data and source code must become equally transparen
 t and openly  accessible.
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