On the World
Observation / Beyond Physics
NEVATHIR
November 8, 2018
A deep motivation for physics research scientists to go through vast complexity for a positive formula is fundamental understanding of nature beyond aesthetics, which partially explains the great achievements of modern physics research. The success is to the degree that physicists began to regard physics as the exclusive fundamental science for nature.
However, because both life and lifeless forms follow physical laws, physics by itself makes no distinction between life and lifeless forms, and thus is naturally deficient at answering life-or-death questions, not to mention questions about what actions to take under critical conditions. Biological pattern formation, for example, is no less fundamental if life sciences are to be properly explained.
The complementarity of physics and molecular biology has a long history, like quantum mechanical foundation for stability of DNA and other organic chemicals, or Gamow's coding genetics work. The results aren't as brilliant as the Standard Model, but given the mystery of how quanta and numbers form intelligent life and wise human beings, there is much research to be done, whose success would be comparable with particle physics and quantum theory.
Solving configurations based on physical laws may appear shallow, but the configurational explanation for how life passed away proved both complex and subtle that still poses great difficulty for scientists, even though physicists already mastered the Standard Model.
Complementarity aside, the sense of a need for a unified fundamental science remains compelling and has produced considerable applications in areas like economics, for example, empirical reformation beyond Lucas critique, rational expectations, and hypothesis tests for a more reliable scientific method.
A advantage of a comprehensive unified theory of sciences is to make obscure logical fallacies in particular scientific research domains obvious with aid from other well-established sciences, illuminating valid research directions while minimizing the cost of avoidable errors.
Questions like whether economics may be properly architected based on physical methodology can be easily answered that physics is deficient, for physical laws didn't predict current or future forms of capitalism or market socialism, economics in general. Econophysics is helpful, but much beyond is required for the complexity of modern and future economies.
Thermodynamics established the arrow of time, but detailed dynamics how the world evolves demands much deeper considerations.
For decades, extremely smart physicists have worked on fundamental physics theories with little progress beyond the Standard Model, which suggests that extraordinarily intelligent physicists taking advantage of complementarity between physics and other sciences at spare time may provide great advancements both for applied physics and complementary sciences.