Re: Physicists Losing Their Grip??

From: nightbat (nightbat_at_home.ffni.com)
Date: 12/23/04


Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 02:52:48 -0500

nightbat wrote

"AllYou!" wrote:
>
> <reany@asu.edu> wrote in message
> news:1103741919.975296.294740@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> >
> > Consc wrote:
> > > Got the following from somewhere. If you have time this holiday,
> > > pls. go over it. It's a serious comment about what is occuring
> > > inside quantum physics. What quantum reality versions (he
> > > mentions a lot) do you believe in. What part did the author
> > > make a wrong assumption, if ever. Thanks. - Consc.
> > >
> > > Nick Herbert talks about "Quantum Reality":
> > >
> > > "Physicists Losing Their Grip
> > >
> > > One of the best-kept secrets of science is that physicists have
> > > lost their grip on reality.
> >
> > Physics is not about reality and it NEVER has been. Physics is about
> > the invention of theories that work, because it can prove it can
> > accomplish that much.
>
> How do we know they work if we're free to invent any data we want?

nightbat

        Via verifiable co peer affirmed observations and results, called
non falsified working theories and scientific evidence, the rest is
philosophy or unproved fantasy based sci fi.

        
        the nightbat



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