Brain Man wrote:
You obviously dont live in the real world of science. Ill tell u what happens here. Most people working in this field are practical. They want their work to convince. For all intents and purposes the idea is to prove your point.
Scientists devise experiments to test their theories. That's part of the process. Of course people hope that new ideas will provide better more accurate predictions that older ones.
U can say what u like about Karl popper, but that is a dream which is paid lip service to at conference presentations, press, books and articles. Scientists set out to prove their theories by the null hypothesis in the stats section, but usually its by any other means possible. In an actual study, the pressure is high, stats keep getting sent back, errors and flaws found in methods. Deadlines accelerate as a result, you rush trying to rescue what you can.
Poppers philosophical musings about whether science describes "truth" were not even mentioned in my studies, and they don't impinge on lab work at all. People do experiments, measure results, and adjust theories accordingly. Big deal. Most scientists aren't concerned with absolute truth and many can't even be bothered with philosophical arguments which trail behind the science anyway. Philosophy rode hundreds of years of determinism. Now it's riding behind uncertainty. If science changes back to deterministic models, a new philosophy of science will follow.
Do you think in this kind of pressure people make statments like "how do we find converging lines of evidence to disprove the null hypothesis" ? No they use fast language such "does this prove that" or plainly "how can we prove that". Get somebody else on here that have been involved in pure dog work. Ask them about this, as you are obviously too paranoid to believe not just this but just about anything i am telling you,
Such as what? Sitting down with a computer looking for different types of collision at a particle accelerator? Data collection is critical to validating theories. It's also critical in a host of real-world situations like product development. So what's your point here? That scientists do the legwork as well as conceptualising new ideas. Whats that quote about genius ...99% persperation 1% inspiration....
and all because i like farsights work. Just shows how far gone from everyday working reality you are. We need stuff that works, if his ideas work, they can be used. Simple as that. If his concepts fit, fine, lets use them.. we will try them out, then see bout the details later.
Farsights ideas are mostly that time is a property of motion. His use of existing science to explain those ideas is about as credible as Intelligent Design. It's riddled with fundamental mistakes and misunderstanding of basic theory. That was apparant when he was unable to explain why c constitutes an absolute limit in special relativity. Never mind whether SR is right, farsight doesn't understand it even at a very basic level. Nor does he understand that magnestism is a relativistic effect of electron motion, or how Maxwells equations account that... he isn't even at an undergraduate level.
What he does do is conflate whether science is true with his own cut-and-paste of bits of science.
Now if you are fooled by that Brainman, I have my doubts about your involvement in the scientific community at any level. Then again, maybe if your job has been scripting programs, understanding transistors and logic gates or learning languages, then why would you know the first thing about relativity?
If farsight presented his ideas as just that: ideas, without appealing to credible science as if it supports those ideas when it blatantly doesn't - he would get a warmer reception. If you like the ideas, great, but if you want to call them scientific, that's another matter entirely.