scott <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote:
> >  Well, *usually* science goes through the cycle:
> >
> > 1) We observe some phenomenon,
> > 2) We study and measure the phenomenon.
> > 3) We formulate hypotheses, and if these hypotheses can make enough 
> > accurate
> >   predictions which match new observations, they are made into theories.
> > 4) If new observations and measurements contradict the existing theories,
> >   they are revised, or entirely new hypotheses are formulated, so we go
> >   back to step 1.

> Didn't Einstein predict black holes before we found any?

  That would be step #3 above.

  What Einstein did not do is to observe a black hole, notice that it did
not conform to his theory, but tried to make it conform anyways.

  That's what I feel QM is doing.

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                                                          - Warp

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