Re: Spacetime

On Sat, 20 Jul 2024 6:12:50 +0000, Ross Finlayson wrote:

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On 07/18/2024 07:29 PM, gharnagel wrote:

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It seems that everyone is married to their own vision.
That's fine, but it seems to me that they should start
their own thread to discuss it.  Then everyone can decide
if they want to discuss it there.  I want arguments
against the ideas I've presented above.
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“I never learned from a man that agreed with me.”
– Robert A. Heinlein
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OTOH, I never learned much from an idiot, either.
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All ideas fall short of reality, so Carl Sagan suggested
a way to get closer:
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"Spin more than one hypothesis. If there’s something to
be explained, think of all the different ways in which
it could be explained. Then think of tests by which you
might systematically disprove each of the alternatives.
What survives, the hypothesis that resists disproof in
this Darwinian selection among “multiple working
hypotheses,” has a much better chance of being the right
answer than if you had simply run with the first idea
that caught your fancy.
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"Try not to get overly attached to a hypothesis just
because it’s yours."

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If there's any good theory at all,
it's the one of them.

It seems to be an evolution.  Hypothesis A explains facts
of Group A observations, but leads to Group B observations
which require Hypothesis B, ...
Are we getting closer to a TOE?