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4 Sep 2024 07:15:59 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Scientific Faith  
From: Warp
Date: 28 Mar 2010 15:55:13
Message: <4bafb420@news.povray.org>
Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> 3) Reality is consistent.
> 3A) The physical laws don't change. To the extent they change,
>      there is a physical law telling you how the laws change.
> 3B) The physical laws are consistent. (E.g., There *is* an
>      as-yet-undiscovered scientific theory unifying QM and GR.)

  Well, that is the theory. There's no reason to think otherwise so far.

  Science is open to alternatives, though.

> 3C) What we think we know about reality does not change how
>      reality behaves. I.e., Truth is true regardless of whether
>      you believe it.

  Some things in quantum mechanics behave so oddly that it's hard to say
what is and isn't dependent on what we "know"... :P

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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