Why bad philosophy is stopping progress in physics

“Badly digested” versions of the philosophies of Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn have misled some physicists to believe that the field can be advanced only by overturning what already exists, argues theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli. But blockbuster experimental results, such as the discovery of the Higgs boson and the detection of gravitational waves, have largely confirmed existing theories.

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