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Assessing Scientific Theories: The Bayesian Approach
Scientific theories are used for a variety of purposes. For example, physical theories
such as classical mechanics and electrodynamics have important applications in
engineering and technology, and we trust that this results in useful machines, stable
bridges, and the like. Similarly, theories such as quantum mechanics and relativity
theory have many applications as well. Beyond that, these theories provide us with
an understanding of the world and address fundamental questions about space, time,
and matter. Here we trust that the answers scientific theories give are reliable and
that we have good reason to believe that the features of the world are similar to
what the theories say about them. But why do we trust scientific theories, and what
counts as evidence in favor of them
European Union - Reforms - Hungarian interests. What kind of European Union would we like?
The lecture deals with broad topics. First, it addresses some questions related to the current state of the EU integration regarding institutions and common policies. Second, it discusses the continued importance, the main results and hindering factors related to the Lisbon Programme, with a special emphasis on the educational system in Europe and Hungary. Third, the lecture deals with some possibilities in changing the EU’s rather limited external relation models to more flexible instruments
Beyond the standard model with B and K physics
In the first part of the talk the flavor physics input to models beyond the
Standard Model is described. One specific example of such a new physics model
is given: a model with bulk fermions in one non-factorizable extra dimension.
In the second part of the talk we discuss several observables that are
sensitive to new physics. We explain what type of new physics can produce
deviations from the Standard Model predictions in each of these observables.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures, Invited talk presented at the 21st International
Symposium On Lepton And Photon Interactions At High Energies (LP03) 11-16 Aug
2003, Batavia, Illinois. Version to appear in the proceeding edited by Harry
W. K. Cheung and Tracey Prat
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