Andrea Griffini:
>Wow... I always get surprises from physics. For example I
>thought that no one could drop confutability requirement
>for a theory in an experimental science... I mean that I
>always agreed with the logic principle that unless you
>tell me an experiment whose result could be a confutation
>of your theory or otherwise you're not saying anything
>really interesting.
>In other words if there is no means by which the theory
>could be proved wrong by an experiment then that theory
>is just babbling without any added content.
>A friend of mine however told me that this principle that
>I thought was fundamental for talking about science has
>indeed been sacrified to get unification. I was told that
>in physics there are current theories for which there
>is no hypotetical experiment that could prove them wrong...
You must always distinguish between Science (=what we know)
and Research (=what we do not know). Research is performed
with all methods except the scientific one, even if we don't
tell the others ;)
Michele Simionato
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