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I think a lot of casual science-thinkers misunderstand the whole concept of scientific thought.
The "laws" and theories of science do not actually tell you how the universe (and reality and everything around our existence) actually "work". "Science" does not "define" the universe around us. "Science" is humankind's attempt to describe and explain everything around us. Science is nothing but the pursuit of an explanation that we can live with. The laws are just those things that fit within the other laws and which all agree with each other.
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Saying that theories are "mere opinions", is like regarding a farmer who gets a poor harvest one year as being just a guy throwing seeds around. A farmer knows a lot...he has to...but he can't know and predict and control everything that pertains to a good harvest. A scientific theorist cannot know or control or predict everything that he is hoping his theory might account for...but he isn't just throwing opinions around.
Yes, it is true that theory is not fact...theories are an attempt to understand and relate facts, and they invariably have areas where there explanations and predictions are incomplete. But let's not slip into black-or-white thinking. |
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Another good one I read a few years back was Simon Singh's, Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe. My fun reading in recent years has been dominated by a different, less interesting topic. What are some recent good books you guys have read on the subject?
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Theory: Systematically organized knowledge,esp a set of assumptions or statements devised to explain a phenomenon or class of phenomena. 2: Abstract reasoning: speculation. That is from the dictionary. You can define theory all you want but don't get confused. It is what it is.
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Of course this opens a different can of worms. The role of the observer, collapsing wave functions, etc. Some would argue that science, ie human beings do indeed define the universe around them. |
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I am leaning towards this thought. You should take a peek at Tom Campbell's big toe theory. (It's free online). Tom see's this existence as virtual. If you or someone else isn't witnessing what is around you it is not there. If you stumble upon a place in the woods it appears. It's all in the program but it takes you to bring it up. Like a video game where you have three doors as options. If you take the middle door that is all you will experience. But the other two doors are there in the system but not experienced. Fascinating. But if true it shows the power of your thought and action as you experience the world.
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It never did, nor could it. If it did, it would no longer be science, but dogma.
Every scientific theory is provisional, because we can never know the results of tomorrow's experiment in advance. On the other hand, therein lies the strength of the scientific method: it continually tests its models and amends or discards them if they fail reliable experimental tests.
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If it helps, Merriam-Webster also explains theory in the context of science:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word...d-theory-usage
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Our whole universe was in a hot dense state.
Then nearly 14 billion years ago expansion started, wait. The earth began to cool, the autotrophs began to drool. Neanderthals developed tools. We built a wall. We built the pyramids. Math, science, history, unraveling the mysteries that all started with the Big Bang! Hey! Australopithecus would really have been sick of us debating why we are here, they're catching deer, we're catching viruses. Religion or astronomy, Descartes or Deuteronomy, it all started with a Big Bang! Music and mythology, Einstein and astrology, it all started with the Big Bang!
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