A fair amount of physics is wishful thinking. We have string theory, 15 dimensions, dark matter, anti-matter, neutrinos, and the multiverse.
Most seems like “I have no idea what’s going on, but I’ve got a story I made up ...”
“Most seems like “I have no idea what’s going on, but I’ve got a story I made up ...””
Not exactly ...
At some point they are smacked in the face with the fact that they are wrong and they will correct all their equations and discover that the new one does not work unless you tweak this one little part and so they will do that and they cycle begins again.
Thankfully they are not in the field of construction.
Modern physics is bad Einstein fan fiction, basically. The standards and level of rigor are shockingly abysmal, given how so oh so sure they are of their conception of reality. It has genuinely become a religion in and of itself.
Odd. Are these a variation or flavor-of-the-latest-physics-of-the-month of the original neutrino?
Thought the neutrino had been detected in enough numbers - though indeed few - that there was no doubt they existed at the fundamental particle level.