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Incorrect predictions are all the rage nowadays, so here is mine: they will find an infinite amount of rule sets that could be the fundamental theory. However, none of it would be testable, so people would pick their own based on their notion of simplicity and beauty. Eventually people would start looking into common properties of the candidate solutions and transformations between them.


Take it further - eventually we will have conceptual physicists whose output is judged on purely aesthetic grounds, and rich people will collect them.


That’s called string theory.


No need to be so smug, he says exactly that in the article. Take another look and read the section "Why This Universe? The Relativity of Rules".




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