I wrote:
>I believe it's true that physicists don't understand "gravitrons" and >"gravity waves," but scientists treat this non-understanding as a >problem to be solved rather than one that's simply assumed away (as >religious people do).
Shane Mage wrote:
"Gravitons" and "gravity waves," like "dark matter" and "dark energy" and "black holes" and "God," have never been observed by anyone nor is there any evidence for the existence of any of these entities. The problem of the nonunderstanding of such factitious entities can only be "solved" by abandoning defective physical and metaphysical theories flawed by their need for "big bangs" and other such placeholders.
this attitude seems to akin to that of behaviorism in psychology, in which the existence of "consciousness" and "personality" is doubted because they never have been observed. But assertions about the existence of "gravitrons," etc. about _truth_. Rather they are "working hypotheses," which will be rejected when better working hypotheses arise. -- Jim Devine / "Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force." -- George Bernard Shaw
