On Friday, November 22, 2019 at 1:08:19 AM UTC-6, Brent wrote: > > > > On 11/21/2019 9:54 PM, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > Also models (like Einstein Field Equations) make predictions of outcomes > that are at odds with observations > > > So at last you agree that we use theories to make predictions and we > compare them with observations. > > > Sometimes. But nothing (except for some nagging critics in the science press) says we have to.
And sometimes we just use them to make science fiction stories. cf. http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/11/can-we-tell-if-theres-wormhole-in-milky.html @philipthrift -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/a7faa465-16fd-42e1-8cc6-258c7e9f6ee3%40googlegroups.com.
