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Is the statement "Claims demand evidence" always true?
RE: Is the statement "Claims demand evidence" always true?
(January 20, 2017 at 9:14 am)bennyboy Wrote: Yes, but it also seems to do away with testability.
Not sure why you'd think that.  The common criticism is that it makes no testable predictions -that differ- from the standard model..but why would it, it's an interpretation.  

Quote:Probably because it was through reading about photons that I first became acquainted with some of the spookiness of QM.  After that, because photons are so fundamental to the interactions among things in the universe.  Buckyballs, however beautiful and interesting, aren't fundamental to my understanding of reality.
Rgr that.

Quote:No doubt.  If something further about light, or what's under light, comes up, then that new info defines a new context.
What's under anything, everything...remember, light isn't a qm snowflake.  Wink

Quote:You'd be dumb to say something like, "In the context where light isn't as we just discovered it to be, it's totally ambiguous."
Thankfully I'd say no such thing regardless, lol.  

Quote:My current position is that modern science tends to add complexity, paradox, and ambiguity.  But I'm willing for sure to let go of mystery when mysteries are actually solved.  That being said, much of what you call my "woo" comes from a deep mistrust of reality, and much of that from too many minds blown studying physics.
That's an interesting position on what science does.  How would studying physics give you a deep mistrust of reality?
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RE: Is the statement "Claims demand evidence" always true? - by The Grand Nudger - January 20, 2017 at 6:09 pm

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