Nowadays which people conform the group of authority in physics....Somewhat like Einstein and Bohm back in the

Question

day??........Its just that now a days you hear about a lot of theories in physics and that, but as theories arise so do people who are against them.......so in the end which group can have the last word on whether a theory is plausible or not............ive seen that in the past they would all get together and discuss about physiscs......reknown physicist like einstein and bohm and all those others would go.....is that still going on??? and who goes there?

Answer 1

The American Physical Society (APS), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) have regular meetings, but there is no group (nor was there ever such a group) that might be called the Group of Authority in physics. That's because scientist use experimentation to finally settle the worth and value of theories.

Back in the Day (as you put it) Einstein's theories were never accepted because they were his, but because experiments designed to disprove him failed, while other experiments designed to affirm his predictions succeeded.

When Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize it was *not* for Relativity even though most folk now hardly know him for anything else. Relativity was so controversial that when he was awrded the Prize it was for "Brownian Motion and other Contributions to Physics." Most people have no idea what Brownian motion is or why one would get a Prize for explaining it.

So, there are lots of theories it is true. Let the experiments decide.

HTH

Charles

Answer 2

well take string theory for example, it has tons of proofs presented mathematically and many predictions but it is not considered solid science yet because we do not have the technology to test it. If an idea is tested many times by different people in different places which the same results it then becomes part of standard scientific understanding.