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My point was only that Amazon does not police or vet every copyright claim on every work sold there. Likely THEY would "let" you (try to) sell it until some one noticed and complained to them.
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On the other hand, how would you class String Theory, science or religion? There is absolutely no proof at all it's correct. |
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String theories are scientific, although since the theorists haven't come up with any experiments to tell which, if any, of their theories correspond with reality, they are more unconfirmed hypotheses than theories as yet.
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Indeed. One of the hurdles that science has to overcome when dealing with the general public is of course that the word "theory" has a completely different meaning in the language of science to its usage in everyday English. In science, a theory is a proposition that makes predictions that can be experimentally tested in order to demonstrate the validity (or falsehood) of the proposition. In everyday English a theory is widely understood to mean "an idea that I've come up with but have no proof for".
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Indeed, but when it's used in the context of, say "the theory of relativity", or "the theory of evolution", it does have the more precise meaning of "something that makes predictions that can be experimentally tested", rather than "it's just an idea".
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Surely it should still be at the String Hypothesis stage as there does seem to be a lack of experimental evidence. |
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GR started the same way. It's still being tested (as you may have seen mentioned in the news recently.) Last edited by ApK; 02-19-2016 at 07:37 AM. |
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Scholastic takes their "Choose your own adventure" very seriously. As per copyright violations, I do know of one (insert word of your choice here) that was selling newer books under a different name and those books got pulled in a hurry. |
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Certainly Amazon will take action in the event of a copyright violation. That's rather different, though, to including an invalid copyright notice in a book. People can just laugh at it and nobody is harmed.
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And in actual practice theories are not discarded until a better theory is available and even then the old theories may be used if they are easier to calculate with (as Newton). |
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