Le 14-févr.-06, à 16:20, uv a écrit :
Bruno said
For me, all questioning is amenable to science, or put in another
way, we can kept a scientific attitude, in all fields, including
those
asking for faith.
Fair enough, as long as we all know what a 'scientific attitude' is.
Kuhn, Popper,
Ben, Danny (and list),
Thanks for your interesting last posts, which I think I need to digest
so as to been able to answer them synthetically for avoiding
repetitions or too much awkwardness. So I will answer them at ease, and
send comments as soon as possible.
The posts are:
Bruno wrote:
... and note that the coherence of taking simultaneously
both a and b above is provided by the incompleteness
results (Godel, ...) which can be summarized by ... no
machine can grasp all aspect of machine.
Bruno
Thanks, Bruno, for the above and also your more lengthy response,
To clarify,that quotecomes
fromJohn Peacock, the reviewer of The Cosmic Landscape for
American Scientist.
What he's saying is that physics, like art,is
partly a function of the human aesthetic response, because empirical evidence
only constrainstheories allowed in physics, but does not
Hi Stephen,
Yes I agree. But once you have many scientists
believing in a certain paradigm, it takes radical new discoveries to overturn
it. The lack of confirmation is usually not enough.
Saibal
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