Steinhardt's falsifiability argument
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Steinhardt's falsifiability argument
The argument quoted in the Steinhardt post on edge.org asks whether a family of models that accommodates any observation still makes predictions.
A theory that can be adjusted to accommodate any observation has stopped making predictions.
It challenges Dru's August view. Its importance is the distinction between testing a particular model and falsifying inflation in practice, now the question for the next run.