Modern science has found itself detached from common experience. It presents with a world view foreign to the one we encounter in our day to day lives, full of quarks, fields, entanglements and spacetime curvature. This detachment is concerning, as the very tool we used to make sense of the world around us has made the world foreign. In this essay, I recount the history of the experimentum crucis in Bacon, Newton and Goethe in order to suggest a way of reconnecting science and experience. My suggestion is that we should strive to look at science from an aesthetic perspective, looking to understand the experience that the scientific world view induces in us. Along these lines, I hope that we can imagine a new, better science, which takes the sucess of modern physics, and brings it back to the world of experience; science with a human face.
Attay Kremer
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