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Question About the Scientific Method
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RE: Question About the Scientific Method
April 3, 2014 at 2:12 pm
(April 3, 2014 at 1:01 pm)ThePinsir Wrote: If an idea or theory has really good, elegant math to support it, everything makes perfect sense and lines up logically, but can't be tested, is it still "science"?

I read an article yesterday about inflation/multiverse ideas. Since we can't test it, at least yet, even though it's not "woo", is it technically pseudo-science? Can it be taken seriously?

In addition to what Mister Agenda had to say...

It is not mature science - not to the point of being award the pedigree of a scientific theory.

M-theory falls under the purview of theoretical physics - where "theory" means something quite a bit different than "scientific theory".

I wouldn't consider it pseudo-science - rather an interesting, currently untestable hypothesis. Absent the coherent mathematics behind it, I'd call it woo / pseudo-science.
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Question About the Scientific Method - by ThePinsir - April 3, 2014 at 1:01 pm
RE: Question About the Scientific Method - by Jackalope - April 3, 2014 at 2:12 pm
RE: Question About the Scientific Method - by Chas - April 3, 2014 at 2:30 pm
RE: Question About the Scientific Method - by Tobie - April 3, 2014 at 4:19 pm
RE: Question About the Scientific Method - by ThePinsir - April 4, 2014 at 9:07 am
RE: Question About the Scientific Method - by Heywood - April 4, 2014 at 9:51 am
RE: Question About the Scientific Method - by ThePinsir - April 4, 2014 at 10:23 am
RE: Question About the Scientific Method - by Alex K - April 4, 2014 at 10:06 am
Question About the Scientific Method - by Rampant.A.I. - April 4, 2014 at 10:47 am
RE: Question About the Scientific Method - by ThePinsir - April 4, 2014 at 4:02 pm
RE: Question About the Scientific Method - by Jackalope - April 4, 2014 at 4:49 pm
RE: Question About the Scientific Method - by Angrboda - April 4, 2014 at 11:05 am
Question About the Scientific Method - by Rampant.A.I. - April 4, 2014 at 4:39 pm

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