Falsifiability (Introduction)

by dhw, Thursday, December 18, 2014, 21:51 (3410 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: This is the main basic for accepting a theory. Some idiotic cosmologic physicists want to do away with it and if a theory looks beautiful enough in math it should be accepted! (i.e., See Sean Carroll):
 
"What to do about it? Physicists, philosophers and other scientists should hammer out a new narrative for the scientific method that can deal with the scope of modern physics. In our view, the issue boils down to clarifying one question: what potential observational or experimental evidence is there that would persuade you that the theory is wrong and lead you to abandoning it? If there is none, it is not a scientific theory."
 
Think unprovable string/multiverse theory. -http://www.nature.com/news/scientific-method-defend-the-integrity-of-physics-1.16535?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20141218-Where does all this leave the God theory?


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