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Question About the Scientific Method
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RE: Question About the Scientific Method
April 3, 2014 at 4:48 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"?

Are you stipulating that it can't be tested EVER, or that the test has simply not been invented yet, or we lack the technology needed to test it and must wait until that technology is invented?

If it can be tested but the test or technology hasn't yet been invented, I would say it is science, but it's currently an untested hypothesis.

If it can't be tested EVER, then I wouldn't call it science, I would call it religion. Wink

Seriously, though, if it's not falsifiable, then to me it's not 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 Clueless Morgan - April 3, 2014 at 4:48 pm
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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