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Originally Posted by FlorenceArt
One thing about axioms: they may not be proveable, but they work. We have sent rockets in space and people on the Moon based on a scientific system that is itself based on them. So the trust is pretty much validated by practice, I'd say.
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I think NASA made use of Newton's gravitational theories in planning missions into space - but Newton was wrong (e.g. the orbit of Mercury contradicts his theory's predictions).
For NASA, Newtonian physics was good enough - even though it was known to be untrue.