Re: OWLS & Out of Sync Clocks-& By _How Much_ Are They Out of Sync.

"PD" <TheDraperFamily@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:1130429072.795157.270940
@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

> Postulates are justified by comparing the predictions that stem from
> those postulates with experimental reality. In this, SR has succeeded
> admirably.
>
> Let me underscore this point. If a theory -- which may or may not be
> based on experimentally untested assumptions -- continues to make
> correct experimental predictions in domains where it claims to apply,
> then there is *no need* to replace it. The only case where a theory
> should be considered for abandonment is when a theory makes an
> *incorrect* prediction in a domain where it claims to apply.
>

There IS one other time a theory should be considered for abandonment; when
a simpler, more useful and better theory is proposed that more fully
explains all known data. But chances are that will NOT happen until sparked
by data that can not be explained by current theories.



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bz

please pardon my infinite ignorance, the set-of-things-I-do-not-know is an
infinite set.

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