Why is metaphysics important for understanding modern scientific theories?

Question

Why is metaphysics important for understanding modern scientific theories?

Answer 1

To understand abstract thoughts and ideas helps with understanding new abstract thoughts and ideas that are being used to create new technology. Anti-matter is a large topic in meta-physics. With the use of anti-matter, we could create an infinite power supply. check anti-matter out on google.

Answer 2

It is not! Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy that Buddha denied circa 550BC, and modern thinkers have agreed with him for some time.

Answer 3

Personally, I don't think it is.  I don't find much use in philosophy, and that's all metaphysics is.

Answer 4

Who says it is? Metaphysics treats the physical world as a metaphor for spiritual or conceptual reality, often attempting to impose the rules of the ideal on the real. While some fields (quantum physics, e.g.) are more conceptual than concrete, that's mathematics, not metaphysics. While you are free to make what metaphorical use you will of any of it, traditional metaphysics will be stymied by the counter-intuitive nature of much of modern physics.