> Why would you like such an answer? If proven wrong, then it's wrong -- why continue studying it?
Because things are not black or white.
It is never clear what we get from the advancement in physics theories, but many times we get more profit from the journey than from the final results. If Einstein equations can be derived from thermodynamic laws, this may have some very deep meaning, even if we still need dark matter to make cosmology models work.
At this point, we have no perfect theory, you could say that all they have been proven wrong in some way or another, and yet, many of them are useful.
I do not know enough about physics to know if this is the most practical way to spend funding, but from the personal viewpoint of Verlinde, I think it makes sense to keep working on his theory until a totally unsolvable problem is found. But this is only my impression after attending a layman talk, I am far from being expert.
Because things are not black or white.
It is never clear what we get from the advancement in physics theories, but many times we get more profit from the journey than from the final results. If Einstein equations can be derived from thermodynamic laws, this may have some very deep meaning, even if we still need dark matter to make cosmology models work.
At this point, we have no perfect theory, you could say that all they have been proven wrong in some way or another, and yet, many of them are useful.
I do not know enough about physics to know if this is the most practical way to spend funding, but from the personal viewpoint of Verlinde, I think it makes sense to keep working on his theory until a totally unsolvable problem is found. But this is only my impression after attending a layman talk, I am far from being expert.