On Sep 20, 2009, at 10:15 PM, Jim Devine wrote:
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.
There have been no such tests. Those entities are being multiplied
precisely because observations consistently produce "unexpected" ie.,
disconfirming, results, so the theory can only be propped up with
"fudge factors" in the form of these unobservable entities.
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
kindling in measures and going out in measures."
Herakleitos of Ephesos
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