> The purpose of science is to discover the properties of the physically existent universe. The properties, themselves, cannot be "narrative".
The purpose of science, as I understand it, is to discover predictive models of the extant universe. I don't think "magnetic force" is a property of the universe any more than "good" or "evil" is. It's a model that gives us good predictive power in certain regimes. It is completely inadequate in others. These models are typically operationalized using formal languages (such as mathematics, or programming languages), so I think calling them "narrative" is justified.
Science also typically proceeds in narrative fashion via papers, journals, conferences and review processes. Your comment strikes me as a map/territory confusion.
> It is easier for me to find them than to post a comment on HN. I am confident you experience will be similar.
This is nice rhetoric, but I know a lot of physicists and none of them claim that they cannot measure time. We literally do it all the time when we set alarms, run stopwatches, etc. It's only mysterious when you get to regimes that physics has yet to capture adequately (microuniverse or extremely high energy microuniverse).
The purpose of science, as I understand it, is to discover predictive models of the extant universe. I don't think "magnetic force" is a property of the universe any more than "good" or "evil" is. It's a model that gives us good predictive power in certain regimes. It is completely inadequate in others. These models are typically operationalized using formal languages (such as mathematics, or programming languages), so I think calling them "narrative" is justified.
Science also typically proceeds in narrative fashion via papers, journals, conferences and review processes. Your comment strikes me as a map/territory confusion.
> It is easier for me to find them than to post a comment on HN. I am confident you experience will be similar.
This is nice rhetoric, but I know a lot of physicists and none of them claim that they cannot measure time. We literally do it all the time when we set alarms, run stopwatches, etc. It's only mysterious when you get to regimes that physics has yet to capture adequately (microuniverse or extremely high energy microuniverse).