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scott <sco### [at] scott com> 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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