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Originally Posted by FlorenceArt
This is a misrepresentation. I much prefer Tom's quote
It is misguiding to say that science cannot prove a theory to be true. I suppose there might be a very small chance that another, better explanation of why apples fall may appear some day, but the probability is so low it's not worth mentioning.
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Where is the scientific theory there? The only indisputable statement about the falling of apples is "apples fall downward" any thing that you add to that will have hard time to be confirmed experimentally. The statement is sort of too little to be called a theory.
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It is also misguiding to say that theories are accepted until proven false. Before a theory is accepted, even provisionally, it must at least be considered to be plausible. By plausible I mean that it fits the facts and laws of physics as we already know them, or if it contradicts them, it must present reproduceable facts in support of their new questions, and/or new answers.
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Who accepts? a committee of acceptors? Financed by whom? Plausible? Is there anything possibly "plausible" in the intermixing of chaos and "order" ?
Staying in the "order". Until the early 60's there were 2 scientific schools of thought, that sustained the theory of ether, in the description of electromagnetic waves. That theory, that originated by a good application of mathematics to a faulty physical thinking, at the beginning was very satisfactory, than, to take into account new experimental manifestations, required properties of the ether that were more and more complex ("cervellotic"). They made countless experiments. Of course for each experiment they received important sums of money and imperishable fame and honors. Down goes ether. False. From about 75 years it was on "trust".
This is not a minor point. It is around this that Albert Einstein built his discoveries.
A similar fate for the terrocentric interpretation of the motion of the celestial bodies. Than it arrives the lens ... And it will continue like this, on and on. On trust, false, enter an other one on trust, false, ...