flipper wrote:
On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 23:50:03 -0500, Les Cargill
wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:
Mind stretching....

http://wmbriggs.com/

...Jim Thompson


This makes very little sense. A theory is a very
humble thing. All it takes is one demonstrable
experiment against it and it vanishes.

It does unless one is so in love with their theory they reject those
'demonstrable' things.

So the people involved simply don't know what a theory *is*. Why
can't the person at the link ( who appears to have rented or
made a fairly fancy stage setup - that wasn't free ) simply *SAY*
that?

-- In fact, it never even reaches to 'theory'
unless one proposes falsifiable and testable predictions but that
doesn't stop people from claiming their notion is not only a 'theory'
but 'true'.

Some things are not testable right now for various reasons.

So called "Global Warming," or "Climate Change," is one
example as proponents have never proposed falsifiable predictions and
get quite agitated if you ask them to because, after all, it's 'true',
so there is no need to 'test' it.


AGW makes falsifiable predictions, but the time scales are
highly inconvenient...



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Les Cargill