there are so many alternatives to the conventional paraidgm---many proposed by the poeple who promote the conventioanl paradigm, i'd say mage has it right. its still likely that that the standard paradigm rules.
--- On Sun, 9/20/09, Shane Mage <[email protected]> wrote: From: Shane Mage <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Pen-l] If physics were economics, we'd still be looking for phlogiston To: "Progressive Economics" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, September 20, 2009, 10:59 PM 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 -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
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