Shane Mage wrote: > ... But today physics has become so mired in conventionality that it > is searching for a multiplicity of purely hypothetical entities--such as > dark matter, gravity waves, dark energy, magnetic reconnections, Higgs > bosons--that it needs to make its equations plausible but that are more than > unlikely to exist. ...
"searching for a multiplicity of purely hypothetical entities" sounds like it's a bad thing. Replace that with "testing a multiplicity of hypotheses" and it sounds like a good thing. at least to the scientifically-minded. Semantics. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
